A pointed weapon or implement; spec. †(a) a dagger or pointed sword (obsolete); †(b) a fish-spear (obsolete); (c) regional a pronged eel-spear (cf…

A fish-spear; also in combinations, as garfangle-hook.

A fishing-spear. Cf. waster, n.3

A sharp-pointed weapon used for various purposes; esp. one for catching fish, a leister.

A fishing-spear.

A kind of harpoon.

(See quot. 1622 and fizgig, n. 4.)

dialect. A fish-spear.

(See quot. 1788.) = fizgig, n. 4.

spec. A barbed fishing spear; also, a stick armed with an iron hook for landing large fish, esp. salmon. Phrase, to bring (a hooked fish) to gaff.

A kind of fish-spear; = fish-gig, n., fizgig, n. 4. Also U.S., ‘An arrangement of four barbless hooks, fastened back to back, and attached to a…

A similar weapon, used for various purposes, e.g. for spearing fish; also in the whale-fishery, with modifying prefixes, as bomb-lance, gun-lance…

Chiefly colloquial. A knife or sharp implement, esp. one used for piercing or stabbing as opposed to cutting or slashing.

Also grane. Frequently as plural (commonly construed as singular; formerly also spelt grainse): A fish-spear or harpoon with two or more ‘grains’…

A long pole fitted with a spike or hook, used in logging and fishing.

= pike-pole, n. 1.

U.S.

a harpoon having a detachable head used in killing sword-fish.

A gaff (gaff, n.1 1b) used to catch mackerel.