A gaff in a sailing vessel is a wooden spar used to support the head of a four-sided fore-and-aft sail; it is therefore rigged with halyards for raising and lowering it, and its lower end is fitted with jaws which fit round the mast and thus allow it to slew sideways or be topped up or down.
Uqalo olunogwegwe sisitya sokudada sentsika esisetyenziswa ukuxhasa intloko yamacala amane angaphambili nangasemva kodado, kungoko ukuxhobisa isikhephe ngemaski yelaphu leseyile xa kunyuka okanye kusihla, isiphelo sokuhla silinganiswa nemihlathi elingana nojikelezo lweflegi ende kwaye oko kuvumela ujiko lamacala okanye unyukelo phezulu okanye phantsi.