water-gang

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See also: watergang

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare gangway.

Noun[edit]

water-gang (plural water-gangs)

  1. (UK, law, obsolete) A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
    • 1832, Joseph and Edward Parker (editors), The Edinburgh Encyclopædia:
      Forty shillings per acre is the price taken for banks, ditches, and water gangs

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