Gaff: alternatives and connections

To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…

To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a han…

A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill;…

A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an…

To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in…

A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject e…

A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people start…

A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish.

Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped.

A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, tri…

Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects…

A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.

To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.

A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.