\Gang\, v. i. [AS. gangan, akin to OS. & OHG. gangan, Icel.
ganga, Goth. gaggan; cf. Lith. ?engti to walk, Skr. ja?gha
leg. [root]48. Cf. {Go}.]
To go; to walk.
Note: Obsolete in English literature, but still used in the
      North of England, and also in Scotland.

\Gang\, n. [Icel. gangr a going, gang, akin to AS., D., G.,
& Dan. gang a going, Goth. gaggs street, way. See {Gang}, v.
i.]
1. A going; a course. [Obs.]
2. A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number
   of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of
   laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of
   sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.
3. A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by
   acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang
   of saws, or of plows.
4. (Naut.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang
   of stays.
5. [Cf. {Gangue}.] (Mining) The mineral substance which
   incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
{Gang board}, or {Gang plank}. (Naut.)
   (a) A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a
       bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel.
   (b) A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's
       waist, for the sentinel to walk on.
{Gang cask}, a small cask in which to bring water aboard
   ships or in which it is kept on deck.
{Gang cultivator}, {Gang plow}, a cultivator or plow in which
   several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make
   two or more furrows at the same time.
{Gang days}, Rogation days; the time of perambulating
   parishes. See {Gang week} (below).
{Gang drill}, a drilling machine having a number of drills
   driven from a common shaft.
{Gang master}, a master or employer of a gang of workmen.
{Gang plank}. See {Gang board} (above).
{Gang plow}. See {Gang cultivator} (above).
{Gang press}, a press for operating upon a pile or row of
   objects separated by intervening plates.
{Gang saw}, a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang
   of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed
   distances apart.
{Gang tide}. See {Gang week} (below).
{Gang tooth}, a projecting tooth. [Obs.] --Halliwell.
{Gang week}, Rogation week, when formerly processions were
   made to survey the bounds of parishes. --Halliwell.
{Live gang}, or {Round gang}, the Western and the Eastern
   names, respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the
   round log into boards at one operation. --Knight.
{Slabbing gang}, an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from
   two sides of a log, leaving the middle part as a thick
   beam.