English

Noun

ganger ‎(plural gangers)

1. (chiefly Scotland) One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.
2. One who oversees a gang of workmen.
   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 159

     'My dad was a railway ganger,'

3. (coal-mining) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
4. (nautical) A length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.

Anagrams

• grange, Grange, nagger

Danish

Verb

ganger

1. present tense of gange

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ganger m

1. indefinite plural of gang

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gangr, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Noun

ganger m

1. act of walking
2. movement forward
3. path
4. turning

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: gång