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Ganging vs Gangling - What's the difference?

ganging | gangling |

As nouns the difference between ganging and gangling

is that ganging is {{cx|fishing|lang=en} while gangling is a member of a gang.

As a verb ganging

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective gangling is

awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.

ganging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1887 , George Brown Goode, The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States
    • 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.
  • * 2011 , Brenda Bishop Booma, Hugh Peabody Bishop, Marblehead's First Harbor
    • 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.

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    gangling

    English

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps from .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
    • A gangling teenager.
    Related terms
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    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nonce, nonstandard) A member of a gang.
  • * 2007 , Edward Estlin Cummings, Eimi :
    • "Well, we'll meet in New York and you can see what's left of me! Bon voyage" the ganglings smirked & just beyond Grand, bang into not — da.