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Sentence Examples One's a millionaire, one has done really well and lives in Ireland, one of them has a big gaff in the New Town. Today the man who should not be named turned up at my gaff throwing stones at my window. It is a luxurious gaff with seven reception rooms and Prince Michael is getting away with one of the best housing benefit scams in the land. A quick, well-aimed move with the gaff, and 54 inches of hammered chrome and green came over the side. With one daughter already and another baby on the way, she is desperate for a bigger gaff in which to raise their family. Yesterday afternoon three girls were roaming the centre lane of the main road outside my gaff. They range from gaff rigs, Clyde Silver yachts and even a Custom's Pinnace. Vessels built of ferrocement may be accepted if they have a gaff or traditional schooner rig. I know of one jewfish caught that was 18 kg and another angler had two quite nice Spanish mackerel to the wall but was unable to gaff them. To gaff a trap, you need to come at it against the tide so you can create some slack on the line. Nevertheless, it took much longer to land, even though at one stage early in the fight we got it close enough to the boat to gaff. Everyone kept back and held their breath as we prepared to gaff the big fish. Sails named for parts of the ship include gaff sails, jib-headed sails, spritsails, and lateen and lugsails. There is absolutely no need to ever gaff a tope, it's an appalling thing to even consider. In an effort to blow the gaff on this mystique we thought we would present to you one and discuss it in detail. The rules were, to begin with, difficult to master, since, as a journalist, one's entire instinct was to blow the gaff. She was given a tall mizzen mast, with a large gaff sail, well forward of the wheel and a smaller spritsail. The throat of the sail is lashed with a 4 mm lacing line to the shank of the bolt behind the gaff jaw. We are talking about not only an inadvertent or incorrect disclosure, but blowing the gaff on the investigation. He was well cool, and took us back, through the soviet style streets back to his gaff. Show More Sentences The son has to decide whether blowing the gaff will do more harm than trying to restore the fortunes by continued dishonesty. The rig is heavier than a standard gaff or Bermuda rig of the same sail area. As an antiques dealer myself, but not in the jewellery field, I'm in an ideal position to blow the gaff on this rather naive theory. But most of all, he blows the gaff on reviewers and productions alike, with his own inimitable turn of phrase. After stowing the gaff, the skipper picked up the anglers trace and showed it to him. This time next week, we'll be standing in the new gaff wondering where we're going to put everything, and waiting for the bed to be delivered. A gaff is also good for beating off wayward locals, snakes, centipedes, scorpions, dogs etc. I'd love to waft around his gaff as a beautiful apparition, red hair flowing in the breeze, reminding him of what he's been missing. Captain Dang successfully hooked the gaff deep into its tail and managed to get the tail up to level of the deck. The gaff, the muck-fork spear and the hayfork-turf candle form a tripod for the salmon to cradle in and are heroic in size and cast in bronze. However, the gaff straightened due to the weight of the fish, and it took a second attempt before the fish was secured and stringered. I have a boat hook and gaff positioned on snap hooks that are screwed in to the glassed-in gunnel supports on the inside of the left hand gunnel. There is a shout for Nigel and he too leans over and pins the fish to the boat with the bigger gaff through the gills. If they get away with banning the hakapik, the gaff is going to go as well. What better thing would there be to hook him with, to haul him in, or something like that than a hakapik or a gaff? I noticed the hook of the flying gaff still unused in the corner, and knew that if he plunged that 10 in spike into her, the lady of the sea was dead. So, naturally, if you slot a gaff through a fish it would feel something. To sugar the pill they sent me to review a very good book, which appeared recently, The Spanish Cockpit, which blows the gaff pretty well on what has been happening. So we whizzed up to Hertfordshire to get the boxes, then picked up more from the old gaff, and then dashed over to run up and down the stairs a few hundred times. I may have liked God when I was three, as I testified on the study wall, but He certainly wouldn't be very fond of me when He found out what I'd done to His gaff in Acton. Show More Sentences But now, this means there are builders all over the front of my gaff. I could be doing the sun coffee time cross word, cutting my toenails, making balls out of elastic bands the postman drops outside my gaff everyday. Which popular blogger invited me round to his gaff last night? A man with a ladder has been round my gaff for the past three days. Back in the car, K and I set off for London, where we will be spending the rest of the day with British Museum and Royal Academy at their gaff in Brixton. Slide the curved end of the gaff hook down the gangion to the hook, engaging the shank of the hook on the shaft of the gaff. The operator then slacked the rake warp, manoeuvred the vessel alongside the deck-hand and managed to hook on to his jacket with a gaff. A type of two-mast ship with square sails, except for one gaff sail on the after mast. Meanwhile, on the other end, US Airways seems genuinely confused by their gaff. What about those people who are out there with a fishing rod, catch a fish with a hook around the mouth and drag it in using a gaff? After a decade as a tenant rattling round someone else's neglected gaff, RCD Espanyol finally have a home of their own. Her bowsprit carries two foresails, and her large mainsail is gaff rigged, with an upside-down triangle of topsail to fill the gap at the masthead. On occasion, the simple flagpole is fitted with a yardarm or gaff to increase the number of flags that may be flown from it. Use the gaff to hold the hook against the roller until the hook is straightened and pulls out of the fish. A gaff is preferable to a Bermuda rig for most offshore conditions. The gaff rig has 34 square feet more sail area than does the Bermuda rig. I declared Jason Atherton's new gaff in London, the Social Bar and Tapas, the best tapas joint outside of Spain. I know there could be different views on it, but I think most people support the gaff and the hakapik. If we're going to give in to animal rights like that, and you ban the gaff, that's a safety issue, boy. If you don't gaff the seal.... You won't be allowed to have it on the boat. Show More Sentences When there were gale force winds, they would get a gaff and a knife to cut the wind. While they were performing this practice with the gaff and the knife, it would be as though they would almost be lifted up. This cruising sloop features an unstayed gaff rig for simplicity. So a small increase could mean something. What you're asking for would require perhaps a little more investigation into whether there are net marks, gaff marks, or something like that on them. Jim went to the Hardy's board and convinced them to buy Nerida and to restore her original gaff rig. The sideshow feat was a just a gaff, but the audience was too proud to admit they'd been fooled. Aston Villa midfielder Reo-Coker and his mates spend time in local hotspots such as The Florida Room, a gaff owned by rock star Lenny Kravitz. Maintain tension on the gangion, lift the end of the gaff and twist it, rolling the hook so that the fish is hanging down on the point of the hook, the hook being supported above the location where the fish is pierced. On December 14, 1994, the Liberal's position on redresses was articulated by the then secretary of state of multiculturalism and status of women, and not the one who is not apologizing for our gaff. Do not use a gaff on any fish that appears undersized. Poachers would use strong torches or carbide lamps as they walked the river with a gaff in hand ready for hooking a salmon. Novel rigging technology now permitted the Bermuda rig to replace the gaff rig. They are suitable for traditional hull forms of types such as the gaff cutter. Generally, when the mainsail had to be taken in, it was not the heavy gaff that was lowered, but the sail was clewed up by means of the clew lines. It's a lot easier to shoot the seals and hook them with a gaff. You won't be able to have a hakapik or a gaff on your boat. The hakapik was introduced to the sealers partly to replace the gaff. Gently shake the gaff to make the fish fall off the hook. Although it is more burdensome to handle than a Bermudan rig, a well-found gaff rig copes with heavy weather at least as capably as its triangular equivalent. Luckily the gaff shot backboned the fish, so it didn't flop much. Show More Sentences Helen Tew arrived back in Beaulieu River Sailing Club, Hants, after making the trip in a 26ft gaff rig cutter designed for her 60 years' ago by her late husband. The Yarmouth Old Gaffers Festival, named after competitors' traditional gaff rig, is on the water from June 2-4 Spectator entertainment includes a farmers' market. Helen Tew arrived back in Beaulieu River Sailing Club, Hants, this afternoon after making the trip in a 26ft gaff rig cutter designed for her 60 years ago by her late husband. Examples from Classical Literature When Dan lunged with the gaff the tuna made a tremendous splash that deluged us. I'll take the gaff rather than have it said about me that I've lain down on a job. The foresail was torn and half-lowered, and the gaff at its head was jambed. The blocks are fitted round the gaff with grommet straps, and are kept in their places by cleats. In a few minutes the American's main-topmast fell, followed by his gaff and mizzen-topgallant-mast. Only there's some gazabo of a millionaire, down east or somewhere, that will get the gaff all right. The Frolic had been hulled repeatedly, but aloft had only lost her gaff and head-braces. The transpontine theatre, even the penny gaff of the New Cut, was not quite unfamiliar with the face of the poet-painter. Those which are attached to the gaff for trussing up the sail close to the gaff as well as the mast. The trysail gaff had parted, and, falling, had struck the old pilot to the deck. Papa, on this, ordered the gaff topsail to be taken in, and the jib shifted. Always when in rough water or in heavy weather keep a vang or down-haul on the peak of the gaff. While all this was going on a deckhand had reeved a block and tackle through the end of the cargo gaff and passed it to the winch. The mainsail was cast loose, jib and staysail ready, and the gaff topsail would not take many minutes to run up in its place. There were eight broadbill swordfish hooked at Avalon during the summer, and not one brought to gaff. One day the little maid fell into the sea, but bucca held her up until Uncle Malachi reached his gaff, and gaffed her in. This is placed on the upper side of the gaff, to pass the outer earing round from the cringle. One was hoisted up to the gaff of the flagstaff, and the other was placed on the wide veranda. What flags are these that dumbly droop from the gaff o' the mainmast tall? A mainsail carried by a gaff has two halyards, the throat and peak. Show More Sentences With his gaff, the gaffman hooks on to a sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from slipping, as the ship pitches and lurches about. From the gaff of one, two gay flags hung limply, one a checkerboard of blue and white squares, the other a white pennant centred with a red disc. Elizabeth II has shown there's more to being monarch than a having stiff upper lip and owning a massive gaff with a Royal Family-sized balcony. A tin dinner-horn rested in cleats just under Harvey's right hand, beside an ugly-looking maul, a short gaff, and a shorter wooden stick. The gaff is blown, the anserine guard gives tongue with might and main. The captain got his glass, and climbed up to the gaff of the foresail. Only the whole sail, gaff, boom and all, was not very large. But like all so-called ladders, they could not stand the gaff. No Newfoundlander would adventure on the ice without a gaff. Used aboard yachts for bending on the gaff topsail halliards. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of gaff? Words that rhyme with gaff What is the past tense of gaff? What is the plural of gaff? What is the noun for gaff? Translations for gaff Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Gaertner Gaeltacht Gaelic Gael Gaekwar gaed Gaff gaffe gaffed gaffer gaffes gaffing 4-letter Words Starting With g ga gaf