gaffle vs pirate

gaffle

verb
  • To steal 

  • To arrest for criminal activity. 

  • To equip with a gaffle or similar weapon. 

  • To talk without a purpose, usually about inane or pointless topics; to babble. 

  • To grab or seize 

  • To get hold of, to find. 

  • To swindle or bully (someone) 

noun
  • A steel spur attached to a gamecock (sometimes used figuratively). 

  • A portable fork of iron or wood in which the heavy musket formerly in use was rested that it might be accurately aimed and fired. 

pirate

verb
  • To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of. 

  • To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of. 

  • To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea. 

  • To engage in piracy. 

  • To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own. 

noun
  • A bird which practises kleptoparasitism. 

  • A kind of marble in children's games. 

  • A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns. 

  • An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels. 

  • One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission. 

adj
  • Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself. 

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