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▪ I. vang Naut.|væŋ| [var. fang n. 7 a.] One or other of the two ropes used for steadying the gaff of a fore-and-aft sail.
1769Falconer Dict. Mar. s.v. Brace, The mizen-yard is furnished with fangs, or vangs, in the room of braces. Ibid., Vangs, a sort of braces to support the mizen gaff, and keep it steady. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1859) 486 The gaff is violently shaken by the loosened sail; for both vangs and brails are gone. 1851Voy. to Mauritius i. 35 The orderly officer, seated on the bulwark, and holding on by a vang. 1881Clark Russell Ocean Free-Lance III. ii. 65 He stood upon the rail..with his arm round the vang. ▪ II. vang southern dial. and ME. var. fang n., v.1 |