Gaff

Synonyms for gaff:

Other synonyms and related words:

euchre, blunder, bobble, goof, cozen, clinker, boo-boo, lapse, defraud, victimize, bleed, hoodwink, stumble, mistake, boob, shortchange, snow, deceive, trip, fault, misstep, thimblerig, Familiarity, solecism, indiscretion, fluff, stick, ream, miscue, bamboozle, clanger, gaffe, faux pas, fumble, delude, diddle, mislead, flub, nobble, brick, inaccuracy, oversight, screwup, gammon, hornswoggle, beguile, slipup, misinform.

lapse (noun)

fault, oversight, flub, miscue, indiscretion, error, blunder, goof.

slip (noun)

lapse, misstep, fluff, trip, mistake.

arrest (verb)

take in.

Usage examples for gaff:

• It was along about here- half- way on the reach to Minot's- that Tommie Ohlsen broke his main- gaff. - "The Seiners", James B. (James Brendan) Connolly.
• About nine out of ten get away, was the reply, and it takes a good fisherman to bring them to the gaff. - "The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries", Francis Rolt-Wheeler.
• That, too, was done, and now the rope led from Rufe's neck, over the weather rail, under the schooner, and up to the gaff. - "The Pirate Woman", Aylward Edward Dingle.