An' dun yo' remember, Betty, haa th' young gaffer laffed at me, an' said as aw could noan play wi' th' likes o' yo'? "Lancashire Idylls (1898)" by Marshall Mather

" Nothing easier; the gaffer has come fairly by his nickname," said Cerizet. "Eve and David" by Honore de Balzac

A farrier they called " Gaffer," who seemed to have been a kind person, took in the infant and brought her up in his house. "Cæsar or Nothing" by Pío Baroja Baroja

Gaffer Grebe didn't trouble himself to answer. "Robin's Rambles" by May Byron