Noun: ganger
| Singular | ganger |
| Plural | gangers |
Sample Sentences
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I was sent out to a little village called Wee-Wee-Rup where the ganger, Dinny Kelly, gave me an order on the store to get a tent and blankets[.] [1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 28:]
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Primary responsibility must rest with a ganger. He failed to appreciate the danger of disturbing the track, short of ballast, on a very hot day. [1950 March, “Notes and News: Merstham Quarry Derailment”, in Railway Magazine, page 210:]
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The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred. [1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Derailment near Holmes Chapel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 652:]
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'My dad was a railway ganger.' [1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 159:]
Nouns inflected like ganger
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English ganger, from Old English gangere (“a ganger, footman”), equivalent to gang + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gunger, West Frisian gonger, Dutch ganger, German Gänger, Danish gjænger, ganger, Swedish gängare, Icelandic gangari. See: Middle English Nouns '
ganger', Old English Nouns '
gangere', Dutch Nouns '
ganger', German Nouns '
Gänger', Icelandic Nouns '
gangari'.