Landing nets and gaff had been sent forward with the baggage, and without these it was an exciting and delicate thing to land that fish.

Then, quick as thought, I belayed the windlass and lowered a gaff.

The gaff slid along his back, and finally settled firmly into the seat of his trousers.

I like a man to stand the gaff when it's prodding him.

Trusty as steel, stands the gaff without whining, backs his friends to the limit, and plays the game out till the last card's dealt and the last trick lost.

"Rather than give you another cent I'd stand the gaff," he remarked defiantly.

"Whether there would be a talisain cock, armed with a sharp gaff, whether the blessed Peter's fighting-cock would be a bulik" Talisain and bulik are distinguishing terms in the vernacular for fighting-cocks, tari and sasabungin the Tagalog terms for "gaff" and "game-cock," respectively.

"Whether there would be a talisain cock, armed with a sharp gaff, whether the blessed Peter's fighting-cock would be a bulik" Talisain and bulik are distinguishing terms in the vernacular for fighting-cocks, tari and sasabungin the Tagalog terms for "gaff" and "game-cock," respectively.

pike, lance, spear, spontoon^, javelin, dart, jereed^, jerid^, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear^, oxgoad^, weet-weet, wommerah^; cattle prod; chemical mace.

They are armed with a curved double-edged gaff.

Leverage, seated in the corner of the room, chewing savagely on a big black cigarwas sorry for his friend: sorryyet proud of the way he was standing the gaff of his chagrin.

The gaff of the mainsail had been driven through it, and it refused to work.

The gaff is of spruce, 61 feet long and 9 inches diameter.

A flag of intermingled colours, and bearing a constellation of bright and rising stars, alone was floating at her gaff.

The top-sail-yards, gaff, and jib-boom, however, were left in their places.

"Up with the jib, topgallant sails, and gaff!" "We must trust to weathering the point," he added to the mate.

It was in the third mile that the battle of wits and judgment had to be carried to conclusion, the fourth mile lurking as a mere matter of staying power and ability to stand the gaff.

" "Sithe light you see here, just in a range with Capri, is at her gaff; we have seen her the whole afternoon and evening.

She had seen the light at the gaff of the Proserpine, and, at first, supposed it might be a signal from the missing boat.

ON JOHN PHILLIPS VIII THE PARISH REGISTERS IX THE MARINE-STORE DEALER X THE OTHER WITNESS XI SIGNATURES TO THE WILL XII THE SALMON GAFF XIII

CHAPTER XII THE SALMON GAFF I gave such a jump on hearing this that Chisholm himself started, and he stared at me with a question in his eyes.

There's an implement in pretty constant use hereabouts that would do just thata salmon gaff!"

"A salmon gaff would just do it."

"I hear that the opinion is that the man was struck down by a gaff," he remarked.

He was not the Bob who had taken Barry Conant's gaff that afternoon a few weeks before.

In coming down the Tarn, all that the boatman has to do is to use his gaffe so as to keep clear of the rocks; but the return-journey is by no means so pleasant and exciting.