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Definition of Pressgangs
1. pressgang [n] - See also: pressgang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pressgangs
Literary usage of Pressgangs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"pressgangs.—Vice-president Vigil.—Taking of San Miguel and San Vicente. —Rumours
of a March upon San Salvador.—Departure from San Salvador AT five o'clock ..."
2. A Group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815) Being Records of the Younger Wedgwoods by Eliza Meteyard (1871)
"... junior—pressgangs —A Steward's Letter—Mrs. Drewe—George Coleridge's Pedagogue-
ship—Thomas Campbell—His high Opinion of Thomas Wedgwood—• Seeks a ..."
3. The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century: Its Progress and Expansion at by Edgar Sanderson (1897)
"... roads—Duelling—pressgangs—Prevalence of smuggling—Lotteries—Lucifer matches
and paraffin candles supersede the miseries of the tinder-box and snuffers. ..."
4. England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social by William Connor Sydney (1891)
"Now and then the pressgangs rendered some service to the protection of ...
It must not be supposed that the action of pressgangs never brooked opposition. ..."
5. England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social by William Connor Sydney (1891)
"Now and then the pressgangs rendered some service to the protection of ...
It must not be supposed that the action of pressgangs never brooked opposition. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1858)
"A hot press for sailors was then going on, and as many as forty pressgangs were
out. In the course of one night they took a thousand men. ..."
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