GANGS

Noun

gangs

plural of gang

Verb

gangs

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gang

Source: Wiktionary

GANG

Gang, v. i. Etym: [AS. gangan, akin to OS. & OHG. gangan, Icel. ganga, Goth. gaggan; cf. Lith. to walk, Skr. ja leg. sq. root48. CF. Go.]

Definition: To go; to walk.

Note: Obsolete in English literature, but still used in the North of England, and also in Scotland.

Gang, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.

5. Etym: [Cf. Gangue.] (Mining)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition