ganging

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæn.d͡ʒɪŋ/

Noun

ganging (plural gangings)

1. (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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæŋ.ɪŋ/

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Noun

ganging (uncountable)

1. 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

ganging

1. present participle and gerund of gang

Related terms

• back-ganging
• family ganging

 

Anagrams

• nagging