Crossword clues for pressgang
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Press \Press\, n. [For prest, confused with press.] A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
I have misused the king's press.
--Shak.
Press gang, or Pressgang, a detachment of seamen under the command of an officer empowered to force men into the naval service. See Impress gang, under Impress.
Press money, money paid to a man enlisted into public service. See Prest money, under Prest, a.
Pressgang \Press"gang`\, n. See Press gang, under Press.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of press-gang English) vb. (alternative spelling of press-gang English)
Usage examples of "pressgang".
To men used to green fields or town slums, to the crowded world of between decks, or those snatched from their loved ones by the impartial pressgangs, it would seem like another planet.
She'd spent some of the most miserable days of her teen years in a youth labor pool, swept off the streets with hundreds of others by a labor pressgang.
Workers were also pressganged from the citizenry of Eldacre, though little pressure was needed.
He had been hired to perform a service, and then pressganged into continuing that service.
Obviously of military age, especially now as military age descended with each day, but the pressgangs seemed to have avoided this area.
There are far too many folk with pieces of paper to shake in the faces of the pressgangs, prime seamen we could well do with.
Men who had sailed with him before, prime seamen who by means known to themselves alone had eluded the pressgangs and the crimps, turned up grinning, often bringing a couple of friends, and expecting their names and former ratings to be remembered - rarely expecting in vain.