gibstaff

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Obsolete

noun

Obsolete

"The house boats of the Mohannas are called “Doondees“. One family may live in the same small boat for as long as half a century. These “Doondees“ range in size between 6 m long and 2 m wide up to a length of 14 m and a width of 4 m in the middle of the boat. The boat is basically steered by a gibstaff."

From the dialectal term gib (“hooked stick”) + staff.

gibstaffs (plural)

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