The mill-hands lounging in the gangways scurried for their stations in the mill; men climbed to the tops of the lumber-piles, while other men passed boards and scantlings up to them; the donkey-engines aboard the vessels rattled; the cargo-gaffs of the steam schooner swung outward, and a moment later two great sling-loads of newly sawed lumber rose in the air, swung inward, and descended to the steamer's decks.
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne
The boys loosed their hold of the gaffs, and sprang apart to give the creature room.
"The Great Hunger"
Johan Bojer
But with my single pair of hands I could only look up idly at the yards and gaffs standing hard as granite.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell