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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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