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  • Mr. Gaffer's example illustrates the growing competition Cisco faces in its biggest business, the $13.6 billion switching unit.

    Cisco's Clients Weigh Options Cari Tuna 2011

  • And very shortly, Nan realized that the seemingly vague directions were not vague at all, for it was obvious which cottage was the Gaffer's.

    The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • A question worthy of a poll (As in "Gaffer's poll of madness").

    ruchiii Diary Entry ruchiii 2004

  • 'Still, there may be no connexion between this rider and the Gaffer's stranger,' said Pippin.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • 'And no wonder they're queer,' put in Daddy Twofoot (the Gaffer's next-door neighbour), 'if they live on the wrong side of the Brandywine River, and right agin the Old Forest.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • One voice was certainly the old Gaffer's; the other was strange, and somehow unpleasant.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • He could not make out what it said, but he heard the Gaffer's answers, which were rather shrill.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • "Ah, Peter!" said he, shaking his head, "the Gaffer's been tellin 'ye' ow they've took Jarge for poachin ', I suppose --"

    The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • This Gaffer's Rock was the extreme point of the opposite arm of the cove -- a sharp tooth rising ten feet or more above high-water mark.

    I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • By the Gaffer's reckoning the sun would not be due for a week or two yet: how many weeks he could not say precisely, and sometimes he was glad enough that he did not know.

    Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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