Meaning of ging | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A company; troop; a gang.
   obsolete
2. A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult.
   Australia
3. A redhead, a ginger-haired person
   informal
4. A diminutive of the female given names Ginger and Virginia.
   familiar
5. A surname from Irish.

Examples

“There is a knot, a ging, a pack⟳, a conspiracy againſt me.”

“Proceeding further, I am met vvith a vvhole ging of vvords and phraſes not mine, for he hath maim'd them, and like⟳ a ſlye depraver mangl'd them in this his vvicked Limbo, vvorſe then the ghoſt of Deiphobus appear'd to his friend Æneas.”

“I put⟳ a stone in the ging and let⟳ fly⟳.”

“Amelia thereupon taught Ginger Park⟳ and Lucy. [...] In one picture Amelia and three friends—Katherine Dolan (referred to as Dolan), Lucy (Toot), Virginia Park⟳ (Ging) are lying on their stomachs, their chins cupped in their hands, staring at the camera either before or after a basketball game; it is Amelia who is holding the ball.”

“But while Crosby was their first main topic of conversation, Johnny and Ginger soon began to have⟳ the experiences that draw⟳ people closer together. [...] “For years,” Mercer said, “anytime anything went wrong, Ging and I would just look⟳ at each other and say⟳ ‘Borough Hall!’ and think⟳ of that poor man who thought he was on his way to Harlem.””

“Her taste⟳ for philosophical conundrums having been whetted rather than sated by decades of nothing to do, Ging often likes to speculate at length on whether we’re an incarnation that became a refuge, or a refuge that became an incarnation.”

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