Dictionary Entry
gaff
gaff is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.
- 2noun
The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.
- 3noun
Same as Gaffle, 1.
- 4transitive verb
To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.
- 5noun
an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish
- 6noun
a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail
- 7noun
a sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock
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