单词 | gange |
释义 | gangev. Angling. Now rare. transitive. To protect (a fish hook or part of a fishing line) by winding (esp. fine) wire around it; to fasten (a fish hook) to a line in this way. ΚΠ 1786 G. Cartwright in C. W. Townsend Capt. Cartwright & Jrnl. (1911) 374 Ganging Hooks and Leads. To fix fine twine in a particular manner to fish-hooks, and small straps of line to leads, that they may be ready for immediate use. a1828 J. G. C. Brainard Poems (1846) 152 And gange, sweet maid of Hellas—gange my hook So that, nor steady pull may draw it off, Nor cumbrous thread betray its fell design. 1861 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands I. 38 The line..was armed or as a fisherman..would say was ganged with flexible brass wire twisted regularly and firmly round it. 1887 Rep. U.S. Comm. Fisheries 1885 267 The hooks are ganged with brass wire, since the sharp teeth of the kingfish would quickly cut off a cotton line. 1928 F. P. Harlow Making of Sailor viii. 176 This time I ganged the hook with a copper wire so that if the fish swallowed the hook he couldn't bite off the wire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1786 |
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