Gang — Defs

01 v. i. To go; to walk.

02 n. A going; a course.

1.
A going; a course.[Obs.]
2.
A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.
3.
A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.
4.
A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.(Naut.)
5.
The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.(Mining)
6.
A group of teenagers or young adults forming a more or less formalized group associating for social purposes, in some cases requiring initiation rites to join; as, a teen gang; a youth gang; a street gang.
7.
A group of persons organized for criminal purposes; a criminal organization; as, the Parker gang.

Phrases & compounds

Gang board — A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel.

Gang cask — a small cask in which to bring water aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck.

Gang cultivator — a cultivator or plow in which several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make two or more furrows at the same time.

Gang days — Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See Gang week (below).

Gang drill — a drilling machine having a number of drills driven from a common shaft.

Gang master — a master or employer of a gang of workmen.

Gang plank — See Gang board (above).

Gang plow — See Gang cultivator (above).

Gang press — a press for operating upon a pile or row of objects separated by intervening plates.

Gang saw — a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed distances apart.

Gang tide — See Gang week (below).

Gang tooth — a projecting tooth.

Gang week — Rogation week, when formerly processions were made to survey the bounds of parishes.

Live gang — the Western and the Eastern names, respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the round log into boards at one operation.

Slabbing gang — an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from two sides of a log, leaving the middle part as a thick beam.