"ganging" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "ref": "1887, George Brown Goode, The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States",
          "text": "The object of the snood swivels, in which the gangings are so easily adjustable, is to save time in removing the fish and in baiting the hooks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2011, Brenda Bishop Booma, Hugh Peabody Bishop, Marblehead's First Harbor",
          "text": "The full length of each tub was just under half a mile and had a total of 270 gangings and hooks if it was a nine-foot rig. Each line was coiled into a wooden barrel three feet in diameter and thirty inches high.",
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        "A leader used to attach a fishhook to the main line, especially in commercial fishing."
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          "attach",
          "attach"
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          "fishhook",
          "fishhook"
        ],
        [
          "main",
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          "line",
          "line"
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          "commercial",
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        "(fishing) A leader used to attach a fishhook to the main line, especially in commercial fishing."
      ],
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        "fishing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle"
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  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "/ˈɡæn.d͡ʒɪŋ/"
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  "word": "ganging"
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          "text": "Some never-atrophying instinct warned him of danger, of gangings up against him--he was never so dangerous himself as when others considered him surrounded.",
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        "The formation of a gang or clique."
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        {
          "word": "back-ganging"
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          "word": "family ganging"
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          "ref": "1887, George Brown Goode, The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States",
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          "fishhook",
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          "main",
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        "(fishing) A leader used to attach a fishhook to the main line, especially in commercial fishing."
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