Definition of "gaffle" []

• A lever used to bend a crossbow (noun)
• A steel spur attached to a gamecock (noun)
• To seize (verb)
• To steal (verb)
• Gaffling is a planning technique for orienteering relay courses whereby individual routes are planned so as to vary slightly and to make following difficult. This means that the competition depends more on navigational skills rather than just physical ability. See British Orienteering Federation's Event Guideline F for Relay Events, Section 3. (verb)

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• "Even if I'm talking to other adults, I will respond with things like "gaffle" and "butt hurt" sorry I don't know if a hyphen goes in or not."
• "I had not heard "gaffle" and "butt hurt" before, by the way."
• "Scarcely a second did they eye one another when crack! slap! they were at it, wing and gaffle."