Water-gang

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. UK, obsolete

    "Forty shillings per acre is the price taken for banks, ditches, and water gangs"

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"Forty shillings per acre is the price taken for banks, ditches, and water gangs"

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