Crossword clues for ganging
ganging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gange \Gange\ (g[a^]nj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ganged (g[a^]njd); p. pr. & vb. n. Ganging (g[a^]n"j[i^]ng).] [Of uncertain origin.]
To protect (the part of a line next a fishhook, or the hook itself) by winding it with wire.
To attach (a fishhook) to a line or snell, as by knotting the line around the shank of the hook.
Wiktionary
n. (cx fishing English) (rfdef: English) vb. (present participle of gang English)
Usage examples of "ganging".
I hae mair ado than I can manage the day, foreby ganging to houk up hunder-year-auld-banes.
It had a light, rompish quality, all the little guys, the mice, ganging up on the big cat.
The snowstorm, full-grown in seconds, had become one more minor item in a long list of tribulations that had been ganging up on Barney Chance for months past.
He heard false laughter, brittle as silicon, saw groups of girls ganging up on others, cruel jests perpetrated on the weak, on the shy, on anyone who was "different," heard whispered conversations about who was the worst teacher, the nastiest teacher, the strictest teacher, the ugliest teacher, about lessons missed, tests copied, about touching oneself, about nighttime escapes, about assignations with boys waiting in the nighttime shadows just outside the abbey's walls, parties where drugs made in secret from the produce of the herb and mushroom gardens were ingested, where laaga, smuggled in from outside, was smoked.
He noticed for the first time that the mistress of the butterflies had eyes of the same lustrous grey shade as his wife, and for some reason this made him cross, too, as if it proved that the women were ganging up on him, whispering God knew what secrets.