ganger

noun /ˈɡæŋə/

1. One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.

2. A horse that goes quickly.

3. One who oversees a gang of workmen.

   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[.]

4. One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry ganger (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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