water-gang

See also: watergang

English

Etymology

Compare gangway.

Noun

water-gang (plural water-gangs)

1. (UK, law, obsolete) A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
   • 1832, Joseph and Edward Parker (editors), The Edinburgh Encyclopædia:

     Forty shillings per acre is the price taken for banks, ditches, and water gangs

References

• “water gang”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.