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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gang \Gang\, v. i. [AS. gangan, akin to OS & OHG. gangan, Icel. ganga, Goth. gaggan; cf Lith. ?engti to walk, Skr. ja?gha leg. [root]48. Cf {Go}.] To go to walk. Note: Obsolete in English literature, but still used in the North of England, and also in Scotland. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gang \Gang\, n. [Icel. gangr a going, gang, akin to AS., D., G., & Dan. gang a going, Goth. gaggs street, way See {Gang}, v. i.] 1. A going; a course. [Obs.] 2. A number going in company; hence a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves. 3. A combination of similar implements arranged so as by acting together, to save time or labor; a set as a gang of saws, or of plows. 4. (Naut.) A set all required for an outfit; as a new gang of stays. 5. [Cf. {Gangue}.] (Mining) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue. {Gang board}, or {Gang plank}. (Naut.) a A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel. b A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist, for the sentinel to walk on {Gang cask}, a small cask in which to bring water aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck. {Gang cultivator}, {Gang plow}, a cultivator or plow in which several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make two or more furrows at the same time. {Gang days}, Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See {Gang week} (below). {Gang drill}, a drilling machine having a number of drills driven from a common shaft. {Gang master}, a master or employer of a gang of workmen. {Gang plank}. See {Gang board} (above). {Gang plow}. See {Gang cultivator} (above). {Gang press}, a press for operating upon a pile or row of objects separated by intervening plates. {Gang saw}, a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed distances apart. {Gang tide}. See {Gang week} (below). {Gang tooth}, a projecting tooth. [Obs.] --Halliwell. {Gang week}, Rogation week, when formerly processions were made to survey the bounds of parishes. --Halliwell. {Live gang}, or {Round gang}, the Western and the Eastern names respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the round log into boards at one operation. --Knight. {Slabbing gang}, an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from two sides of a log leaving the middle part as a thick beam. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gang n 1: an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: {pack}, {ring}, {mob}] 2: an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" [syn: {crowd}, {crew}, {bunch}] 3: an organized group of workmen [syn: {crew}, {work party}] 4: a combination of implements arranged to work together v : act as a gang [syn: {gang up}]
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