Gaff
Encyclopedia
Pole-shaped devices
- Fishing gaff, a pole used in fishing
- Gaff or hakapikHakapikA hakapik is a club, of Norwegian design, used for killing seals. The hakapik is a multipurpose hunting tool—a heavy wooden club, with a hammer head , and a hook on the end. In Norway, and possibly elsewhere, the hakapik is used only to kill seal pups, while a rifle is used to kill more mature seals...
, used as a seal-hunting weapon - Gaff rigGaff rigGaff rig is a sailing rig in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and, usually, its entire head by a spar called the gaff...
; A fore-and-aftFore-and-aft rigA fore-and-aft rig is a sailing rig consisting mainly of sails that are set along the line of the keel rather than perpendicular to it. Such sails are described as fore-and-aft rigged....
sailing arrangement where the sail is held up by a sparSparIn sailing, a spar is a pole of wood, metal or lightweight materials such as carbon fiber used on a sailing vessel. Spars of all types In sailing, a spar is a pole of wood, metal or lightweight materials such as carbon fiber used on a sailing vessel. Spars of all types In sailing, a spar is a...
called a gaff
Ankle-worn devices
- Gaff, spurs in variations of cockfighting
- Gaff, a means of access to utility poles in climbing
Other
- Gaff, meaning a place of residence, often used in Irish and British slang.
- Gaff, fictional character in the film Blade Runner
- Penny gaffPenny gaffA penny gaff was a popular entertainment for the lower classes in 19th century England. It consisted of short, theatrical entertainments which could be staged wherever space permitted, such as the back room of a public house or small hall. Unsophisticated, the props and scenery rarely consisted of...
, 19th-century English variety show - Operation GaffOperation GaffDuring World War II, Operation Gaff was a six-man patrol of Special Air Service commandos, who parachuted into Nazi-occupied France on 18 July, 1944, with the aim of severely injuring or killing Field Marshal Erwin Rommel....
, 1944 military mission of assassination - Gaff, or cache-sexeCache-sexeA cache-sexe is an item, often a small garment, that covers its user's genitals. The most common style, seen in Western G-strings and Japanese Fundoshis, has a triangle of material attached at the corners to straps or strings around the waist and between the legs, that fasten the triangle over the...
, an item worn as means of concealing male genitals when wearing traditionally female clothing - GAFF, generalized AMBER force field in molecular-simulation program
- Gaff, a character in the Eon Kid series
See also
- Gaff tape or gaffer tapeGaffer tapeGaffer tape, gaffer's tape, gaff tape or gaffa tape is a strong, tough, cotton cloth pressure sensitive tape with strong adhesive properties. It is used in theater, film and television productions as well as during live performances and any other kind of stage work...
, a form of sticky tape - Gaffe, an embarrassing error
- Gaffer (disambiguation)
- Gaff art, another term for graffitiGraffitiGraffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
- gafGafGaf or Gāf may be the name of four different Perso-Arabic letters, all representing . They are all forms of the letter kāf, with additional diacritics, such as dots and lines. There are three forms, each used in different places:* in Persian & Urdu...
, an Arabic letter