Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which gangs or goes; a goer; a walker.
- noun One who conducts or superintends a gang or squad, as the foreman of a gang of laborers or plate-layers on a railway.
- noun In coal-mining, one who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
- noun Nautical, a length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who oversees a gang of workmen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who oversees a
gang of workmen.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the foreman of a work gang
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Examples
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Beverly Jameson the coordinator of South Yorkshires ` Black Police Association said When you saw the whole footage thing young lady is thrashing about violently and in ganger of hurting both herself and the officers trying to restrain her.
I`m not a racist but...... Newmania 2007
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Beverly Jameson the coordinator of South Yorkshires ` Black Police Association said When you saw the whole footage thing young lady is thrashing about violently and in ganger of hurting both herself and the officers trying to restrain her.
Archive 2007-03-04 Newmania 2007
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In the late afternoon he called the ganger to him.
Ruined City Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951
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Shields "to see some women," they would probably have gone down to their graves, seawards or landwards, under the pleasing illusion that the ganger was a man of like indulgent passions with themselves.
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The ganger was a worried man and he said with a heavy sigh:
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Of all the sea-robbers who sailed from their rocky dwelling-places by the fiords of Norway, none enjoyed higher renown than Rolf, called the ganger, or walker, as tradition relates, because his stature was so gigantic that, when clad in full armor, no horse could support his weight, and he therefore always fought on foot.
Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Robert Guiscard, or Roger of Sicily, are all greater and stronger men, but there is no "ganger," no rover, like the man who in fifty years, after fighting in well-nigh every land of Christians or of the neighbours and enemies of Christendom, yet hoped for time to sail off to the new-found countries and so fulfil his oath and promise to perfect a life of unmatched adventure by unmatched discovery.
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911
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CC: Well, my first reaction was that I didn't think I wanted to do it--but that was because I didn't know that they had decided to switch James Bond and to reinvent it with Daniel Craig in what was almost like a British indie/ganger vibe film.
Mike Ragogna: Machine Gun Preacher: Conversations with Chris Cornell Plus Jon McLaughlin, and Stephen Kellogg Exclusives Mike Ragogna 2011
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CC: Well, my first reaction was that I didn't think I wanted to do it--but that was because I didn't know that they had decided to switch James Bond and to reinvent it with Daniel Craig in what was almost like a British indie/ganger vibe film.
Mike Ragogna: Machine Gun Preacher: Conversations with Chris Cornell Plus Jon McLaughlin, and Stephen Kellogg Exclusives Mike Ragogna 2011
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Internasjonalt er det flere ganger rapportert svært dårlige arbeidsforhold for ansatte i ulike spillfirma.
Archive 2009-02-01 Torill 2009
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