water-gang

noun

A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.

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Meanings

nounwater-gang (plural water-gangs)

plural water-gangs

  1. UKobsoletelawA passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.

    Forty shillings per acre is the price taken for banks, ditches, and water gangs

    1832, Joseph and Edward Parker (editors), The Edinburgh Encyclopædia

Origin

Compare gangway.

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