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Definition of Pressgang

Pressgang
Pressgang Press"gang`, n. See Press gang, under Press.

Meaning of Pressgang from wikipedia

- The Armada society are pressganged from various ships to live on the floating colony. MiƩville favours the word "pressganged" and has used it in numerous...
- than 42,000 sailors had deserted. Roughly half of all RN crews were pressganged and these not only received lower wages than volunteers but were shackled...
- well as a split with Bay Area band Steel Trap in 2006 for Spiderghost Pressgang. Later that year, they signed on to Rumble Records to record their debut...
- band New Model Army. Later it also featured members of All about Eve, Pressgang and Asylum. Nozzle's first album called Winter was released on German...
- Second Thoughts, the role was pla**** by Press Gang alum Julia Sawalha. "[pressgang] Interview: Kelda Holmes". Yoyo.org. 1 January 1997. Archived from the...
- the methods used to gain workers were very harsh. The Army was used to pressgang local people and most were taken by force to the Reich. In addition to...
- work-piece by the application of pressure "the Press", colloquial name for pressganging, a 17th- to 19th-century Royal Navy method of forced conscription Press...
- ransom. In the 19th century, kidnapping in the form of shanghaiing (or "pressganging") men supplied merchant ships with sailors, whom the law considered unfree...
- Home (University of South Carolina Press, 2014) Einstein's Beach House (Pressgang/Butler University, 2014) The Magic Laundry (Snake Nation, 2015) Miracles...
- its most notorious criminals. After Harley herself is imprisoned and pressganged into the Suicide Squad, Joker aims to free her from her predicament,...