Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fasten (a fish-hook) to the end of a section of line called the ganging.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To protect (the part of a line next a fishhook, or the hook itself) by winding it with wire.
- transitive verb To attach (a fishhook) to a line or snell, as by knotting the line around the shank of the hook.
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Examples
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Cool pic of Triers man, looks like he's rocking the gange! theJOker
Penelope Cruz to Lead Lars von Trier’s Melancholia | /Film 2010
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Deceased Nazima wife of Nisar was abducted from Haripur and was gange raped before her murder; police has arrested accused Afghan refugee Syed Nazir from Kohat bazaar and have registered case against him under anti terrorist act 1997.
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Sie is naus in den Garde gange, un war allei im Monlicht khockt.
Chapter 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 1. German Henry Louis 1921
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The cases of the nouns do not vary in form, adjectives are seldom inflected, and only two tenses of the verbs remain, the present and the perfect, e.g., ich geh and ich bin gange.
Chapter 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 1. German Henry Louis 1921
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Ei Ovet is sie an n Partie gange, aver es war ken Freud dat für sie.
Chapter 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 1. German Henry Louis 1921
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Medicinal extracts and preparations of all kinds, including proprietary or patent medicines, but exclusive of quinine or preparations of quinine, opium, gange, and bhang.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison 1867
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Soon after they offered a large one for Sall. after finding us anxious to purchase they declined silling this Skin. those people informed us that they killed those Animals among the rocks in the mountains under which they live; and that great numbers of those animals inhabit those mountains & that the lamb was killed out of a gange of 36 at a Short distance from their village.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Shoshone nation. our hunters joined us with 2 deer in tolerable order. on the Side of the Hill near the place we dined Saw a gange of Ibex or big horn Animals I Shot at them running and missed.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Saw trees Peeled & found poles &c. at 11 oC I Saw a gange of Elk as we had no provision Concluded to kill Some Killd two and dined being oblige to Substitute dry buffalow dung in place of wood, this evening passed over a Cream Coloured flint which roled down from the Clifts into the bottoms, the Clifts Contain flint a dark grey Stone
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Botswanas har klaret sig meget bedre en de andre, idet BNP pr indbygger er 4-5 gange større end nabolandenes.
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