Presently they were passed into the care of the umpires, two of whom officiated, and who then affixed the steel gaffs to the spurs of the contestants.
No fear is felt that they will seriously injure each other, until they are old enough to have the sharp steel gaffs affixed upon the spurs with which nature has supplied them.
At a signal from the referee, the expert unsheathes the gaffs and the fine blades glitter threateningly.
The skilled attendants carry the two cocks into the arena, a white and a red, already armed but with the gaffs still sheathed.
The other rooster had popped both gaffs through his head.
The gaffs were fitted, the roosters were placed in the pit and held until both were sufficiently mad to fight, when they were turned loose, and each struck at the same time.
Almost every day there was a cock-fight in front of one of the tents, but it was generally bloodless, as nobody knew anything about handling the birds, and the steel gaffs were never used.
The bird that can first pierce the other with thesegaffs generally wins the fight, as a well-directed blow with them is fatal.
Sure enough, the antagonist of the bird was found in the hands of a soldier; at any rate, there was another chicken with the gaffs on that had been killed before his character was known.
He had inherited The Gaffs from his grandfather, for both his parents died in his infancy, and his two remaining uncles gave their lives in Virginia, early in the war, following the flag of the Confederacy.
An hour later she sent a boy with a note to The Gaffs to Harry Travis.
The master of The Gaffs stroked his head, saying: "It is strange that I love this old dog so.
Jim sat in the buggy at The Gaffs holding the horses while Richard Travis, having eaten his supper, was lighting a cigar and drawing on his overcoat, preparatory to riding over to Westmoreland.
The Gaffs was a fine estate of five thousand acres which had been handed down for several generations.
Was it not when father dressed me as a gypsy girl and I rode my pony over to The Gaffs and sang from horse-back for your grandfather?
He walked to the window and looked out on the broad fields of The Gaffs in the valley before him.
Fore-and-aft rigged= is having the principal sails extended by booms and gaffs suspended by their ends (Figs.
And then he came in, and the first thing he told me was that they had gaffs on.
At last the spring arrived, when the ice drifted out of the north in vast floes, bearing herds of hair-seal within reach of the gaffs of the harbour folk, and was carried hither and thither with the wind.
Using his gaff as a paddle--as these gaffs are constantly used in ferrying by the Newfoundland fishermen--and helped by the wind, he soon ferried himself to where Job North stood waiting with his companions.
With the topmast hanging in the cross-trees, sails, booms and gaffs swinging all over the deck, she looked as if she had been through a hurricane.
In less time than it takes to tell the men swarm over the bulwarks with their gaffs and knives and are deployed among the seals.
One captain saved all his men by having them pile up their gaffs and lie down on them for cat-naps.
They are already spurred, but the gaffs are not yet unsheathed.
There they were arming the cock, they were selecting gaffs for him, and the expert, in fitting them to the rooster's legs, was preparing a piece of red silk.
But with my single pair of hands I could only look up idly at the yards and gaffs standing hard as granite.
Gaffs and booms were in their places, and the sails furled upon them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gaffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
