ganch

English

Etymology

Compare French ganche, also (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish and Portuguese gancho hook, Italian gancio.

Verb

ganch (third-person singular simple present ganches, present participle ganching, simple past and past participle ganched)

1. To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks as a punishment.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ganch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Chang, chang