gaffle

发音

/ˈɡæfl̩/

词形变化

gaffles 复数 gaffles gaffles 三单 gaffling 现在分词 gaffled 过去式 gaffled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A lever used to bend a crossbow.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    A steel spur attached to a gamecock (sometimes used figuratively).

  3. 3.

    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.

    历史 工程 政治 军事
  4. 4.

    a fork in an orienteering race.

v.
  1. 1.

    To equip with a gaffle or similar weapon.

  2. 2.

    to include a gaffle in an orienteering race.

  3. 1.

    To grab or seize

  4. 2.

    To get hold of, to find.

  5. 3.

    To arrest for criminal activity.

  6. 4.

    To steal

  7. 5.

    To swindle or bully (someone)

  8. 6.

    To talk without a purpose, usually about inane or pointless topics; to babble.

词源

From Middle English gaffolle, a borrowing from Middle Dutch gaffel, gafel (“fork”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (“fork”), related to Old English gafol, ġeafel (“fork”).

来源：wiktionary