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Ganging vs Ginging - What's the difference?

ganging | ginging |

As nouns the difference between ganging and ginging

is that ganging is while ginging is (mining) the lining of a shaft with stones or bricks to prevent collapse.

As a verb ganging

is .

ganging

English

Verb

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    • 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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    ginging

    English

    Noun

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  • (mining) The lining of a shaft with stones or bricks to prevent collapse.
    • (Webster 1913)