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gaffer

['gæfə] n
gen. стари́к m
cinema гафер m (Yuriy Sokha); головний освітлювач (Yuriy Sokha)
inf. батечко m; дядько m; діду́сь m (у звертанні); старий селянин; десятник m; хлопчина f
gaffer ['gæfə] n
tech., brit. ма́йстер m; бригади́р m
 English thesaurus
gaffer ['gæfə] n
cinema The head of the electrical department, responsible for the design and execution of the lighting plan for a production. Early films used mostly natural light, which stagehands controlled with large tent cloths using long poles called gaffs stagehands were often beached sailors or longshoremen, and a gaff is a type of boom on a sailing ship. In 16th Century English, the term "gaffer" denoted a man who was the head of any organized group of laborers.