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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : gaf |
| Phonetic Transcription : gæf |
Definition of gaffing
Origin :- "iron hook," c.1300, gaffe, from Old French gaffe "boat hook" (see gaffe). Specifically of the hook on a fishing spear from 1650s.
- As in arrest : verb take into authorized custody
- When I came to myself, Luke was gaffing the trout at the boat-side.
- Extract from : « In the Wilderness » by Charles Dudley Warner
- With the greatest care you select the best spot for gaffing him, and successfully get the gaff free from your shoulder.
- Extract from : « Chats on Angling » by H. V. Hart-Davis
- Nothing, however, could induce the fish to come into the moderately slack water where gaffing would have been an easy matter.
- Extract from : « Lines in Pleasant Places » by William Senior
- Gaffing is or was one of the ten thousand modes of swindling practised in London.
- Extract from : « The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims » by Andrew Steinmetz
- Gaffing began, and the billiard-marker before described was pitched upon to 'do' the stranger.
- Extract from : « The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims » by Andrew Steinmetz
- Gaffing the buoy aboard, he pulled up the anchor, and soon was hauling in the trawl over the wooden roller on the starboard bow.
- Extract from : « Jim Spurling, Fisherman » by Albert Walter Tolman
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