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water-gangs

water-gangs is the plural of water-gang.

Meaning of water-gang

Noun

water-gang (plural water-gangs)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
    • Forty shillings per acre is the price taken for banks, ditches, and water gangs1832, Joseph and Edward Parker (editors), The Edinburgh Encyclopædia

Questions about water-gangs

What is water-gangs the plural of?
Water-gangs is the plural of water-gang.

Words near water-gangs in the dictionary

  1. water-fears
  2. water-free
  3. water-gall
  4. water-galls
  5. water-gang
  6. water-gangs
  7. water-gum
  8. water-hole
  9. water-holes
  10. water-hugging
  11. water-ice

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