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Ganger   /gˈæŋər/   Listen
Ganger

noun
1.
The foreman of a work gang.





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"Ganger" Quotes from Famous Books



... well-proportioned, active and agile as it was, did not give the same promise of strength as the round limbs and large-boned frame of Richard, which even now seemed likely to rival the gigantic stature of his grandfather, Earl Rollo, the Ganger. ...
— The Little Duke - Richard the Fearless • Charlotte M. Yonge
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... the tares of Paris. The word "Saxon" is so vague that we cannot pretend to say exactly who the Saxons of Bayeux were; but Saxons of some sort were there, even before another Teutonic wave came in with Rolf Ganger and his Northmen. Bayeux, as we have said, was the Scandinavian stronghold. Men spoke Danish there when not a word of Danish was understood at Rouen. Men there still ate their horse-steaks, and prayed to Thor and Odin, while all Rouen bowed piously ...
— Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine • Edward A. Freeman
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Words linked to "Ganger" :   foreman, chief, honcho, gaffer, boss


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