What does "winger" mean?

One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.

Winger

//ˈwɪŋ.ɚ// name, noun

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Noun

1
One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
"We hauled out a winger of grog."
2
(sports) player in wing position wordnet
3
An offensive player who plays on either side of the center.
"The center passed to the left winger, who shot and scored."

Proper Noun

1
A surname.
"The two drivers, Wayne Gerdes and Bob Winger, weren’t new to this: they had, in fact, beaten their own previous record of 77.9 mpg obtained on the same route in 2013."

"City's skilful and elusive winger beat two players with agile footwork before whipping in an early cross to the near post."

From wing + -er.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.