gang
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Is gang a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To go; walk; proceed.Examples: "(Colin alone) Ah, Colin, thou’rt a prodigal; a thriftless loon thou’st been, that cou’d na’ keep a little pelf to thysall when thou had’st got it; now thou may’st gang in this poor geer to thy live's end, and worse too for aught I can tell; ’faith, mon, ’twas a smeart little bysack of money thou hadst scrap’d together, an the best part of it had na’ being last amongst thy kinsfolk, in the Isles of Skey and Mull; muckle gude may it do the weams of them that ha’ it! There was Jamie MacGregor and Sawney MacNab, and the twa braw lads of Kinruddin, with old Charley MacDougall, my mother's first husband's second cousin: by my sol I cou’d na’ see such near relations, and gentlemen of sich auncient families gang upon bare feet, while I rode a horseback: I had been na’ true Scot, an I cou’d na’ ge’en a countryman a gude last upon occasion (as he is going out, Miss Aubrey enters.)"; ""And am I to meet my Mary at Moffat? Come away, little, dear, welcome body, thou blessed of heaven, come away, and taste of an auld shepherd's best cheer, and I'll gang foot for foot with you to Moffat, and my auld wife shall gang foot for foot with us too. I tell you, little, blessed, and welcome crile, come along with me.""Northern-EnglandScotlandintransitive
noun (English)
1. (US) A chain gang.US
2. (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.Examples: "an outlet gang box; a double gang switch."
3. (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.Examples: "a gang of wires"; "Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet."
4. (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.Examples: "In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang / Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang"; "That week was also called the Gang Week, from the Saxon ganger, to go; and the Rogation days were termed the Gang Days."; "Neither Marshall nor Bouterwek makes clear the connection existing between the Gang-days and the Major and Minor Litanies."dialectal
5. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.Synonyms: outhouseobsolete
6. (African-American Vernacular, used in the vocative) A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.Examples: "Volume controls may be ganged to mode switches to provide maximum output […]"; "When cutting the back cleats with the T-guide, first gang them together so all the marks on one side align."; "The chairs are usually ganged together using a variety of ganging or locking mechanisms to create rows and prevent the chairs from moving out of position."transitive
noun (English)
1. (mining) Alternative form of gangue.alt-ofalternativecountableuncountable
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