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In angling, a gaff is a stiff pole with a stout prong or hook attached used for landing large fish.
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A gaff is a ring used for cock-fighting.
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A barque or bark is a type of three-masted sailing vessel, with fore and main masts rigged like those of a ship, and the mizzen like the mainmast of a schooner, carrying a spanker and gaff topsail.
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A beurtmann was a Dutch inshore cargo-carrying vessel in use between the 17th and 19th centuries and designed for ease of handling by a small crew - typically just three. A beurtmann had a single mast, gaff-rigged with a jib and was typically of about 60 tons displacement.
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The Brynhilda was a Swedish pojama launched in 1776. The Brynhilda was square rigged on the mainmast with a staysail and jib, and gaff and boom rigged on the mizzen. She carried a complement of between 46 and 50 and was armed with four 24-pdr guns and twelve 3-pdr guns.
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A cutter is a small vessel resembling a sloop, with one mast and a straight running (not fixed) bowsprit, the sails being usually a fore-and-aft mainsail, gaff topsail, stay foresail and jib.
In ships, fore-and-aft is a term meaning in a line with the keel. Fore-and-aft sails are those that are set on a stay or gaff and boom, such aa jibs, stay-sails, etc.
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The gaff-topsail is a sail set above a gaff sail on a sailing vessel.
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A gaff is a spar used in ships to extend the upper edge of fore-and-aft sails which are not set on stays. The fore-end of the gaff, where it embraces the mast, is termed the jaw, the outer end the peak. The jaw forms a semicircle, and is secured in its position by a jaw-rope passing round the mast.
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The gaff sail is the quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail on a sailing vessel.
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