ganging

Definitions

1. A leader used to attach a fishhook to the main line, especially in commercial fishing.
2. The formation of a gang or clique.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The object of the snood swivels, in which the gangings are so easily adjustable, is to save⟳ time in removing the fish⟳ and in baiting the hooks.”

“The full length of each tub was just under half a mile and had a total of 270 gangings and hooks if it was a nine-foot rig. Each line was coiled into a wooden barrel three feet in diameter and thirty inches high.”

“Some never-atrophying instinct warned him of danger, of gangings up against him--he was never so dangerous himself as when others considered him surrounded.”

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