The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ganger \Gang"er\, n.
One who oversees a gang of workmen. [R.]
--Mayhew.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (lb en chiefly Scottish) One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker. 2 One who oversees a gang of workmen. 3 (context coal-mining English) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways. 4 (context nautical English) A length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.
WordNet
n. the foreman of a work gang
Wikipedia
Ganger were an alternative rock/ post rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, with members who also played with Bis, Aereogramme, and Fukuyama.
Ganger may refer to:
- The head of a gang of labourers, especially on canals or railways
- Ganger (band), a Scottish alternative rock band
- A manufactured biological creature in the BBC Doctor Who universe
- Ganger, Karnal, a village in Haryana, India
- Ganger Rolf ASA, a Norwegian holding company for the Olsen family
Usage examples of "ganger".
He was affectionately known as the Gaffer from his working days as a ganger with the old LSER, now part of the nationalized railways.
He could speak to toshers, who combed the sewers for lost valuables, or to gangers, who led the men who cleared the worst buildups of detritus and silt that blocked the narrower channels.
One Saturday evening when the gang went into the town for Sunday Chapel and muster, one of the gangers dropped out an expiree, and Mr.
The station-master told the ganger of the four navvies who went by on their trolly down the line to work.
Now on large works with sub-contractors, gangers, artizans, and labourers, by piece and by day, it is no easy matter to keep matters going smoothly.
The half-dozen gangers and razorboys racing down the sidewalk collided abruptly as their lead elements tried to stop.
The stink gave me ample reason not to follow her, but the gangers in the truck allowed me no alternative.
Her crew, like most crews in the fleet, was a melage of gutter sweepings, metplex gangers, and pressed c-men, but.
She disappeared with the gangers for an hour or so, then came back grinning with self-satisfaction and bearing an armload of bags from the local Voodoo Chili franchise.
Eilir winced-inwardly, this time-at the memory of her mother standing incredulous in the flame-shot darkness, the hickory ax handle in her hand and the dead ganger at her feet.
As every Hold should be, it was self-contained, with journeymen in all skills and a MasterMiner, Furlo, as well as his gangers who mainly worked for copper, which was always in demand.