"Gaffing" is a word in ENGLISH
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Sydney, don't leave Adrian because of me.""It's more complicated than that," I said automatically."It's really not," she said. "From everything I've seen and heard, you're just afraid. You've always controlled every detail of your life. When you couldn't-like with the Alchemists-you found a way to seize back that control.""There is nothing wrong with wanting control," I snapped."Except that we can't always have it, and sometimes that is a good thing. A great thing, even," she added. "And that's how it is with Adrian. No matter how hard you try, you aren't going to be able to control your feelings for him. You can't help loving him, and so you're running away. I'm just an excuse.
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When young Jose, newly arrived in the United States, made his first trip to Yankee Stadium, there were no tickets left for sale. Touched by his disappointment, a friendly ticket salesman found him a perch near the American flag. Later, Jose wrote home enthusiastically about his experience. "And the Americans, they are so friendly!" he concluded. "Before the game started, they all stood up and looked at me and sang, .... 'Jose, can you see?'"
A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff …
Read the complete definitionThe after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Read the complete definitionA line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head …
Read the complete definitionThe gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.
Read the complete definitionA false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.
Read the complete definitionThe spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.
Read the complete definitionSame as Gaffle, 1.
Read the complete definitionA barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.
Read the complete definitionTo strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.
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Read the complete definitionAn artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.
Read the complete definitionA small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.
Read the complete definitionA strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.
Read the complete definitionTo arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
Read the complete definitionThe outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
Read the complete definitionThe inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a …
Read the complete definitionA rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it …
Read the complete definitionTo raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak …
Read the complete definitionA light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
Read the complete definitionA vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical …
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