Gaff vs. Shaft

Gaffnoun

A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.

Gaffnoun

A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.

Gaffnoun

A trick or con.

Gaffnoun

(nautical) The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.

Gaffnoun

A garment worn to hide the genitals.

Gaffnoun

Rough or harsh treatment; criticism.

Gaffnoun

A place of residence.

Gaffverb

To use a gaff, especially to land a fish.

Gaffverb

To cheat or hoax.

Gaffverb

(slang) To gamble.

Gaffnoun

A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.

Gaffnoun

The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.

Gaffnoun

Same as Gaffle, 1.

Gaffverb

To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.

Gaffnoun

a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail

Gaffnoun

an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish

Gaffnoun

a stick with a hook or barbed spear, for landing large fish.

Gaffnoun

a spar to which the head of a fore-and-aft sail is bent

Gaffnoun

rough treatment or criticism

Gaffnoun

reveal a plot or secret

Gaffnoun

a house, flat, or other building, especially as being a person's home

Gaffverb

seize or impale with a gaff

Shaftnoun

(obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.

Shaftnoun

The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.

Shaftnoun

(by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.

Shaftnoun

Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.

Shaftnoun

A beam or ray of light.

Shaftnoun

The main axis of a feather.

Shaftnoun

(lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.

Shaftnoun

A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.

Shaftnoun

A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.

Shaftnoun

A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.

Shaftnoun

(architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.

Shaftnoun

The main cylindrical part of the penis.

Shaftnoun

The chamber of a blast furnace.

Shaftverb

To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.

Shaftverb

(transitive) To equip with a shaft.

Shaftverb

To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

Shaftnoun

The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

Shaftnoun

The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light.

Shaftnoun

That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical.

Shaftnoun

The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc.

Shaftnoun

A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; - called also cora humming bird.

Shaftnoun

A rod at the end of a heddle.

Shaftnoun

A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc.

Shaftnoun

A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.

Shaftnoun

The chamber of a blast furnace.

Shaftnoun

a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer

Shaftnoun

an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect;

Shaftnoun

a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)

Shaftnoun

a column of light (as from a beacon)

Shaftnoun

the main (mid) section of a long bone

Shaftnoun

obscene terms for penis

Shaftnoun

a long pointed rod used as a weapon

Shaftnoun

a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)

Shaftnoun

(architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column

Shaftnoun

a vertical passage into a mine

Shaftnoun

a revolving rod that transmits power or motion

Shaftnoun

the hollow shaft of a feather

Shaftverb

equip with a shaft

Shaftverb

defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit