Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of press-gang English)
Usage examples of "press-ganging".
Every maritime nation has lost vessels to war, press-ganging, desertion.
It was obvious that the long, sometimes easy, sometimes cruel process of press-ganging would have to begin, and that many months of effort would be expended on the men and few women imprisoned below, and that eventually many of them would reconcile themselves to their new life, and some would not.
Jack got away from them fast, because where there was such a demand for sailors, there’d be press-ganging: one blunder into a dark alley, or one free drink in a tavern, and he’d wake up with a headache on a ship in the North Sea, bound for the Cape of Good Hope, and points far beyond.
This man had fled the area because the troops had been press-ganging any idlers they could find, putting them to work chopping down trees—little ones for firewood and big ones for lumber.