Gaff

1. n. Same as Gaffle, 1.
2. n. A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.
3. n. The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.