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Crossword-Solution: GAFF 4 letters, 144 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
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.

We have 144 clues for the answer “GAFF”

Clue Answers
A hooked pole for landing a fish 1 answer
AMUSEMENT, public place of (arch.) 1 answer
AMUSEMENT, public place of (sl.) 1 answer
Angler's handled hook 1 answer
Angler's hook 1 answer
Angler's hook or spear 1 answer
Angler's spear 1 answer
Barbed spear 1 answer
Big fishhook 1 answer
Big fishing hook 1 answer
Boat hook. 1 answer
Butcher's hook 1 answer
Captain's hook 1 answer
Climbing hook 1 answer
Climbing spur. 1 answer
Equipment for a fisherman. 1 answer
Finish for a fish. 1 answer
Fish lander. 1 answer
Fish-grabbing hook 1 answer
Fish-landing hook 1 answer
Fisher's large hook 1 answer
Fisherman's barbed spear 1 answer
Fisherman's handled hook 1 answer
Fisherman's hook 1 answer
Fisherman's iron hook 1 answer
Fisherman's landing hook. 1 answer
Fishhook with a handle 1 answer
Fishing hook 1 answer
Fishing hook with a handle 1 answer
Fishing implement that sounds like a blunder 1 answer
Fishing instrument. 1 answer
Giant fishhook 1 answer
Handled hook 1 answer
Heavy fishing hook 1 answer
Hefty hook with a handle 1 answer
Hook for landing fish 1 answer
Hook for landing large fish 1 answer
Hook for lifting heavy fish 1 answer
Hook in a boat 1 answer
Hook on a fishing boat 1 answer
Hook on a handle 1 answer
Hook used for the one that got away 1 answer
Hook used to land fish 1 answer
Hook with a handle 1 answer
Hooked fishing spear 1 answer
Hooked pole used for hauling large fish aboard 1 answer
Humongous hook with a handle 1 answer
IRON-hooked stick for landing large fish 1 answer
Implement for landing fish. 1 answer
Iron fishhook 1 answer
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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 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008
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.
Moran of the Lady Letty Frank Norris 2008
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.
The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 2008
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.
Joe The Hotel Boy Horatio Alger Jr. 2006
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.
An Outcast of the Islands Joseph Conrad 2006

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.
Cassandra Clare Clockwork Princess
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
Andrew Wyeth
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).