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

"The fellow has the modesty to carry a naked gaff in our presence," said Bignall, pointing out the circumstance to his companion, as an augury favourable to their success.

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

As it was she caught it, as she rounded the cape, as close in as she could go, the frigate letting slip at her the whole of her starboard broadside, which cut away the schooner's gaff, jib-stay, and main-topmast, besides killing, a Kannaka, who was in the main-cross-trees at the time.

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

Wait till he draws his wad, and we'll throw the gaff in him to the queen's taste.