Crossword-Solution: GAFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gaff | n. | A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish. |
| Gaff | n. | The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended. |
| Gaff | n. | Same as Gaffle, 1. |
| Gaff | v. t. | To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GAFF (5)
Carefully the gun was laid, and as the order "fire" was given, down came our English flag, and the stop of the Stars and Stripes was broken at the gaff.
The name of the boat on which he found himself was the “Bertha Millner.” She was a two-topmast, 28-ton keel schooner, 40 feet long, carrying a large spread of sail--mainsail, foresail, jib, flying-jib, two gaff-topsails, and a staysail.
She took a firmer grasp of the sheet, and gave an impatient look up at the gaff and the leech of the little sail, and twitched the sheet as if she urged the wind like a horse.
But if you can prove to me that you and Caven came by those shares honestly I won't prosecute you, Malone.” “I will prove it!” was the quick answer, and that very afternoon Pat Malone proved beyond a doubt that the shares had belonged to himself and Gaff Caven when they sold them to Maurice Vane.
This gaff is down on the boom.” There was a shrill pipe dying in long-drawn cadence, the song of the men swinging on the rope.
Quotes with GAFF (2)
By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff,” Gideon said. “Gabriel, don’t look at anything unless I tell you it’s all right.
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 171 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).