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gaffle
語源 1
From Middle English gaffolle, a borrowing from Middle Dutch gaffel, gafel (“fork”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (“fork”), related to 古期英語 gafol, ġeafel (“fork”).
名詞
gaffle (複数形 gaffles)
- (obsolete) A lever used to bend a crossbow.
- A steel spur attached to a gamecock (sometimes used figuratively).
- 1860, George Palmer Putnam, Popping the Question: And Other Tales, page 295:
- These birds, having been some time previous bereft of the weapons nature designed for their defence, are now fornished with gaffles, or artificial spurs, each of which is a polished steel blade , about three inches in length, half an inch wide at the base, curved slightly upwards, sharp at the point and on the upper edge, and firmly fastened to the leg by means of a clasp.
- 1906, William Cowper Brann, Brann, the Iconoclast, page 319:
- (historical, artillery) 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.
動詞
gaffle (三人称単数 現在形 gaffles, 現在分詞 gaffling, 過去形および過去分詞形 gaffled)
- To grab or seize
- To get hold of, to find.
- 1974, The Hilltopper, page 191:
- Anyone who would like to share your burdens or want to know more about Christ, you are welcome to come to our Tuesday and Friday, and Sunday night bible studies or just gaffle one of the brothers on the yard.
- To arrest for criminal activity.
- To steal
- To swindle or bully (someone)
- 1958, René Albert Wormser, Foundations, Their Power and Influence, page 363:
- 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.
- 1994, North eastern reporter. second series - Volume 623, page 76:
- They then stole a maroon Oldsmobile Delta Eighty-Eight from a parking lot on Harvard Avenue and resumed their search for a victim to “gaffle."
- To talk without a purpose, usually about inane or pointless topics; to babble.
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