noun.
One who or that which gangs or goes; a goer; a walker.
noun.
One who conducts or superintends a gang or squad, as the foreman of a gang of laborers or plate-layers on a railway.
noun.
In coal-mining, one who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
noun.
Nautical, a length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.