| 单词 | iron gang |
| 释义 | > as lemmasiron gang iron gang n. Australian (now historical) a detachment of convicts assigned to hard labour in shackles; cf. chain-gang n. at chain n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > chain gang iron gang1826 chain-gang1834 1826 Sydney Gaz. 2 Aug. John Walker was brought forward to receive his sentence for Mr. Smith's robbery; 12 months to the iron gang. 1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. iv. 35 Had escaped with one or two others from his ‘iron gang’. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. ii. 44 A bullock wagon taking supplies to men in an iron gang. 1987 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 251 The iron gangs straighten from their sad Triangular thoughts to watch. < as lemmas |
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