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- noun Alternative spelling of
gob stick .
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Examples
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Harvey devoted himself to his lines and the gaff or gob-stick as Tom Platt called for them; and they rowed back to the schooner guided by the bell and Tom's instinct; Manuel's conch sounding thin and faint beside them.
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Evidently "muckle" could not be the dinner-horn, so Harvey passed over the maul, and Dan scientifically stunned the fish before he pulled it inboard, and wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a "gob-stick."
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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