Definition of "gangsman" [gangsman]

• ; pl. gangsmen (-men). One who has charge of a gang of men. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But at all events the gangsman was a local preacher, and so the poor soul who took him for husband had effected a compromise with her cherished ideal."
• "For the average gangsman was as void of sentiment as an Admiralty warrant, pressing you with equal avidity and absence of feeling whether he caught you returning from a festival or a funeral."
• "In his efforts to swell the returns of pressed men the gangsman was supposed -- we may even go so far as to say enjoined -- to use no more violence than was absolutely necessary to attain his end."