ganging
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ganging (plural gangings)
- (fishing) A leader used to attach a fishhook to the main line, especially in commercial fishing.
- 1887, George Brown Goode, The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States:
- The object of the snood swivels, in which the gangings are so easily adjustable, is to save time in removing the fish and in baiting the hooks.
- 2011, Brenda Bishop Booma, Hugh Peabody Bishop, Marblehead's First Harbor:
- The full length of each tub was just under half a mile and had a total of 270 gangings and hooks if it was a nine-foot rig. Each line was coiled into a wooden barrel three feet in diameter and thirty inches high.
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ganging (uncountable)
- The formation of a gang or clique.
- 1934, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night:
- Some never-atrophying instinct warned him of danger, of gangings up against him--he was never so dangerous himself as when others considered him surrounded.
Verb[edit]
ganging
- present participle and gerund of gang