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Gangster vs Ganister - What's the difference?

gangster | ganister |

As nouns the difference between gangster and ganister

is that gangster is (street gang member) while ganister is a hard, fine-grained sandstone, used in manufacturing silica bricks for lining furnaces.

gangster

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of a criminal or street gang.
  • A member of a professional criminal organization; a racketeer.

    • Derived terms

    * gangsta ----

    ganister

    English

    (wikipedia ganister)

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hard, fine-grained sandstone, used in manufacturing silica bricks for lining furnaces.
  • * 1991 , , Town of Claysburg - Refractories Company Town , Historic American Buildings Survey, page 2:
    • ''Like those in southern Huntingdon County, the ridges of southern Blair County were often covered with ganister."

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