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    gaffer


    1. ‘Im fine Tom; this is my friend Charles and he is my gaffer, who so happens to be your gaffer


    2. Before assembling the UPS, he tied a piece of thin wire to the tiny nuclear reactor of the UPS, then fixed the other end of the wire to the inside of the UPS's back cover with a large piece of gaffer tape


    3. ' He tied the NCO's hands behind his back with generous amounts of gaffer tape, strapped his legs together, pulled off his hood, and placed a few strips of tape over his mouth, then dragged him behind the counter


    4. Before he had time to say anything, or even think of anything to say, a strip of gaffer tape was slapped over his mouth, and he was yanked backwards from his seat in a vice like grip, bundled into the rear on the floor and securely bound


    5. The gaffer tape was still covering their mouths, but their eyes spoke volumes


    6. Gopal was initially a little sceptical about my motorbike, which had a lot to do with all the gaffer tape and tie-wraps that were holding it together


    7. The gaffer of the masons laid his bricks with a deft rhythm that soothed the soul and Rafferty felt sorely in need of such balm


    8. THE GAFFER: (Crouches, his voice twisted in his snout) And when Cairns came down from the scaffolding in Beaver street what was he after doing it into only into the bucket of porter that was there waiting on the shavings for Derwan's plasterers


    9. known as the Gaffer


    10. said,' the Gaffer declared

    11. Gaffer was recognized as the leading authority by all in the neighbourhood


    12. 'You shouldn't listen to all you hear, Sandyman,' said the Gaffer, who


    13. 'Then you've heard more than I can speak to,' answered the Gaffer


    14. But the Gaffer did not convince his audience


    15. Gaffer, but Bag End's a queer place, and its folk are queerer


    16. Frodo and look after his bit of garden'; an arrangement that was approved by the Gaffer, though it did not console him for the prospect of having Lobelia


    17. What sort of a fellow was he? says I to the Gaffer


    18. The Gaffer is getting old, and more than a bit blind, and it must have been near dark when this fellow come up the


    19. 'And the Gaffer said he was a


    20. `Live and learn! as my gaffer used to say

    21. They've dug up Bagshot Row, and there's the poor old gaffer going down the Hill with his bits of things on a barrow


    22. Gaffer said to me often enough, it being a word of his


    23. 'Maybe,' said Sam; `but where there's life there's hope, as my Gaffer


    24. Rosie Cotton and her brothers, and the Gaffer and Marigold and all


    25. 'Well, I was born lucky, whatever my gaffer may say


    26. 'What I saw in the Mirror: trees cut down and all, and my old gaffer turned out of the Row


    27. The last person they passed was a sturdy old gaffer clipping a hedge


    28. Into the middle of this talk came Sam, bursting in with his gaffer


    29. 'Well, you can't say fairer than that,' said the gaffer


    30. 'It takes a lot o' believing,' said the gaffer, 'though I can see he's

    31. The Gaffer was restored to Number Three; and he said often and did not care who heard it:


    32. one might hear an old gaffer in an inn, after a good pint of well-earned ale, put down his mug with a sigh: 'Ah! that was proper fourteen-twenty, that was!'


    33. was ready he went with the Gaffer


    34. you know the Gaffer is close at hand, and he will be very well looked after


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    Synonyms for "gaffer"

    boss chief foreman gaffer honcho antique old-timer old geezer oldtimer

    "gaffer" definitions

    an elderly man


    an electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set


    a person who exercises control over workers