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press-gangs

n. (press-gang English)

Usage examples of "press-gangs".

Elsewhere a few peasants clustered in squalid villages, hiding at the approach of the Ska press-gangs, even though at Xounges, King Gax still maintained his nominal rule.

Alec didn't know much of press-gangs, but this didn't have the look of one.

From the looks of his thin young face, the young peon conscript probably hadn't eaten this well before the Army press-gangs swept him up.