water-gang
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See also: watergang
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare gangway.
Noun[edit]
water-gang (plural water-gangs)
- (UK, law, obsolete) A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
- 1832, Joseph and Edward Parker (editors), The Edinburgh Encyclopædia:
- Forty shillings per acre is the price taken for banks, ditches, and water gangs
References[edit]
- “water gang”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.