"foregaff" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "fore- + gaff",
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      "form": "foregaffs",
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          "ref": "1880, United States. Army. Signal Corps, Annual Report (page 744)",
          "text": "Schooner Gracie M. Filer lost foregaff in a blow on Lake Michigan."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous",
          "text": "The foresail went over with a bang, and the foregaff stabbed and ripped through the stay-sail, which, was of course, prevented from going over by the mainstay.",
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        "The gaff (spar that controls a gaff-rigged sail) that controls a gaff-rigged foresail."
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        "(nautical) The gaff (spar that controls a gaff-rigged sail) that controls a gaff-rigged foresail."
      ],
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        "nautical",
        "transport"
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  "word": "foregaff"
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        "The gaff (spar that controls a gaff-rigged sail) that controls a gaff-rigged foresail."
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        "(nautical) The gaff (spar that controls a gaff-rigged sail) that controls a gaff-rigged foresail."
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