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▪ I. ganger, n.1 Obs. exc. dial. and arch.|ˈgæŋə(r)|
Also 5 gangar, 9 ganner.
[f. gang v.1 + -er1. Cf. Du. ganger, G. gänger.
OE. *gangere (Somner) is not authenticated.]
1. One who goes or travels on foot.
Rolf the Ganger, a modern rendering of ON. Gǫngu-Hrólfr (where gǫngu is the genit. of ganga: see gang), the designation of a Norseman who has been from a very early period conjecturally identified (but erroneously) with the ‘Rollo’ or ‘Rou’ of Norman history.
1424Sc. Acts Jas. I (1814) II. 6/2 That thar be ordanyt hostilaris and resettis haifande stabillis and chawmeris to ridaris and gangaris. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) I. i. 5 Rolf, called the ganger or walker, as tradition relates, because his stature was so gigantic..he always fought on foot. 18..Froude in Skelton Summ. & Wint. Balmawhapple (1897) II. 215 Long ages now beneath the soil The ganger has been lying.
b. Phr. comers and gangers (see quot.).
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxx. 136 Prestre Iohn hase ilk a day in his courte etand ma þan xxxm of folke, withouten commers and gangers. 1876Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘Gangers and comers’, people in and out; visitors.
2. A fast-going horse.
ON. gangari, Da. ganger steed, palfrey, common in mediæval romances and ballads, were prob. suggested by med.L. gradarius or ambulator (cf. OF. cheval ambleur) and thus different in origin and meaning.
1818Scott Rob Roy xxvii, It's a weel-kend ganger; they ca' it Souple Tam. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Ganger, a goer, a speedy horse. 1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Ganger, a goer, usually, if not exclusively, applied to a horse.
3. Comb., as ganger-before, ganger-between.
1483Cath. Angl. 149/2 A Ganger be-twene, mediator, -trix. 1595Duncan App. Etymol. (E.D.S.) Anteambulo, a ganger before, a convoyer.
▪ II. ganger, n.2|ˈgæŋə(r)|
[f. gang n. or v.2 + -er1.]
An overseer in charge of a gang of workmen.
1849Alb. Smith Pottleton Leg. 15 His companion..was known in the village as ‘The Ganger’..a sort of sub-contractor for the works..collecting his own men and paying them. 1860Artist & Craftsman 278 The man was a ganger, as it is termed in the technical phraseology, a sort of serjeant of the working army. 1860W. H. Russell Diary in India II. xxi. 409 A ganger, or head navvy..is placed over hundreds of men. 1894Times 5 Feb. 3/2 A man named Eames acted as foreman or ganger, on board the Crowaiti, in the interests of the stevedores.
appositive.1886Daily News 28 Dec. 7/2 J. K., a ganger platelayer, deposed to finding the deceased's body.
▪ III. ganger, n.3 Naut.|ˈgæŋə(r)|
[? Short form of foreganger.]
(See quot. 1882.)
c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 55 The upper ends are then ready for shackling to the ganger. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 162 A ganger, two or more lengths of chain cable shackled to the sheet anchor. It enables part of the sheet cable always to remain bent.
▪ IV. † ˈganger, v. Obs.
[back-formation from gangrene, influenced by canker: cf. It. gangrire to gangrene (Florio); also ‘Ganger, a canker, fester, venom’ (Surrey Provincialisms, E.D.S.).]
intr. To gangrene, mortify.
1685M'Alpie in Harp of Renfrew. Ser. ii. (1873) 31 They..Most be cutt off like corrupt member, Least yt the body all should ganger. 1696A. de la Pryme Diary (Surtees) 102 An ape..bit his hand, which bite he slighting, it gangered and killed him. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Wound, When the Parts Ganger, you must make use of the Spirit of Motherwort. |