gaff-headed sail

1. 1.

   a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff

   Synonymsgaffsail

   Broaderfore-and-aft sail

   Part ofsailing vessel

Questions about gaff-headed sail

What does gaff-headed sail mean?

gaff-headed sail means "a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff".

What is another word for gaff-headed sail?

Close synonyms include gaffsail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gaff-headed sail a common word?

gaff-headed sail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.