ganger
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Is ganger a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chiefly Scotland) One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.Scotland
2. (business, rail transport) One who oversees a gang of workmen.Examples: "Primary responsibility must rest with a ganger. He failed to appreciate the danger of disturbing the track, short of ballast, on a very hot day."; "The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred."; "'My dad was a railway ganger.'"
3. (coal mining) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
4. (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.
Definition source: Wiktionary