gaffle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A lever used to bend a crossbow.
2. isim A steel spur attached to a gamecock (sometimes used figuratively).

   “One sits with a harp at his lord's feet; another tames the wild hawk and trains him, teaches him with his little gaffles till the Welsh bird becomes docile.”

3. isim A portable fork of iron or wood in which the heavy musket formerly in use was rested that it might be accurately aimed and fired.
4. isim a fork in an orienteering race.
5. fiil To equip with a gaffle or similar weapon.

   “Now, sword or dagger, human arms are but artifical claws and fangs, tied on like false spurs to the fighting cock. So, we repeat, Oberlus, czar of the isle, gaffles his four subjects; that is, with intent of glory, puts four rusty cutlasses into their hands.”

6. fiil to include a gaffle in an orienteering race.
7. fiil To grab or seize

   “They would grapple till they were tired, then stop; but as soon as one would start for the bears the other would gaffle him again.”

8. fiil To get hold of, to find.

   “Ye see, he knew there wasn't barely enough grazing for him on that oasis, and a short supply of dates for me, and he had gaffled onto that place and warn't going to let go for no black feller nor yet yeller.”

9. fiil To arrest for criminal activity.

   “Most forgers were “drunken checkers," men who had forged checks at taverns, although now and then someone would arrive who had hung a great deal of paper before getting gaffled.”

10. fiil To steal

    “I presume that one of them walked out to the back end to see if any one had been trespassing, and finding my trap had gaffled it.”

11. fiil To swindle or bully (someone)

    “In other words , you know the trouble around here — and this is pertinent , too — that there have been too many committees in which the minority has allowed itself to be gaffled into submission and silence.”

12. fiil To talk without a purpose, usually about inane or pointless topics; to babble.

    “So I commenced to yell, And old man Pease he hugged his knees and gaffled to his pail.”