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Gangline vs Gangling - What's the difference?

gangline | gangling |

As nouns the difference between gangline and gangling

is that gangline is a central line connecting a sled etc to the individual tuglines of the animals that draw it while gangling is (nonce|nonstandard) a member of a gang.

As an adjective gangling is

awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.

gangline

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A central line connecting a sled etc. to the individual tuglines of the animals that draw it.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 16, author=Rebecca Santana, title=Training for Alaska, in New Jersey, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=As the dogs were hooked up to the gangline linking them to the A.T.V. on a snowless day, the cacophony of barking built as the animals pulled at the harness to get going. }}

    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.