Crossword-Solution: GAFFERS 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Here the gaffers and gammers, whose dancing days were over, told stories of great impressiveness, and at intervals surveyed the advancing and retiring couples from the same retreat, as people on shore might be supposed to survey a naval engagement in the bay beyond; returning again to their tales when the pause was over.

There are the men and the maids, and the wives and the gaffers grey Of the fields I know so well, and but little changed are they Since I was a lad amongst them; and yet how great is the change! Strange are they grown unto me; yea, I to myself am strange.

The gaffers, a motley crowd, were sitting or standing about, playing cards or throwing deck quoits to kill time till the play began.

The gaffers scrambled for places, wedged in a compact circle, the spectators standing behind them to advise or take a hand as occasion offered.

The spinner tossed the coins again, and, as they fell, the gaffers cried "Two heads!" "Two heads," repeated the boxer, with the decision of a judge.