Gaffle vs Baffle - What's the difference?
gaffle | baffle |
To seize
To steal
Gaffling is a planning technique for orienteering relay courses whereby individual routes are planned so as to vary slightly and to make following difficult. This means that the competition depends more on navigational skills rather than just physical ability. See British Orienteering Federation's Event Guideline F for Relay Events, Section 3.
To talk incessantly without a purpose, usually about inane or pointless topics; to banter.
(obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
(obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
* Prescott
* John Locke
* Cowper
* South
To struggle in vain.
A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
In obsolete terms the difference between gaffle and baffle
is that gaffle is a lever used to bend a crossbow while baffle is to hoodwink or deceive (someone).gaffle
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(gaffl)References
*OED 2nd edition 1989 (noun sense)baffle
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(baffl)- He by the heeles him hung upon a tree, / And baffuld so, that all which passed by / The picture of his punishment might see […].
- (Barrow)
- I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.
- calculations so difficult as to have baffled , until within a recent period, the most enlightened nations
- The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.
- the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim
- a suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all
- A ship baffles with the winds.
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* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.