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…

A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.

of Barb

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

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 piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…

A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for ho…

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.

A counter, used in various games.

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…

Having the heaves.

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

To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

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