gang
38
8.9
- noun
- /ɡæŋ/
- Specialized
- I worked on a chain gang for six months building roads.
Examples
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But hunters feeding the railway gangs could haul meat only so far.
Fiction book (1995) -
Some such plantations are worked by tenant farmers, others by gangs of slaves.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'll have the gang ready to turn over.
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Harry, give us the pickup on that gang number, will you, please?
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At some farms, they would have a gang of ten or fifteen.
Fiction book (1995) -
The chain gang was born in Georgia in 1908 and developed into the "good roads movement."
Academic text (2005) -
Manpower shortages, in turn, led to the use of press gangs to fill the ranks.
Academic text (2007) -
Cherum's labor gang consisted of a core of relatives plus unrelated workers.
Academic text (1998) -
Cherum furnished workers mainly to Chloride miners, so his labor gang lived near that mine camp.
Academic text (1998) -
The construction gang worked diligently to finish the bridge ahead of schedule.
Synonyms
1
7.8
A farm machine with two or more blades that turns several rows of soil at once
A large machine with many blades that cuts several pieces at once from thick blocks of wood or stone
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.8
A farm machine with two or more blades that turns several rows of soil at once
A violent left-wing group active in Germany from 1968 to 1977, also called the Red Army Faction
- NSFW
A violent group in the Philippines that kidnaps people and takes money by force
How Complex
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gang also kept the sense of things that 'go' together, so it was used for sets that work at the same time. So a gang of saws or plows is a group of tools arranged to work together.