Definition of "gans" [gans]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gan. (verb)

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• ""Clew up fore and main to'gans'ls," he shouted; "take in the tops'ls."
• "Colin, you go and furl the fore to'gans'l, and if the men are still busy on the tops'l yards, pass the gaskets round the main to'gans'l as well. ""
• "But what the Government was really most boastful about was the way in which they reckoned the streets had been made safer for all peace-loving night-walking lewdies in the last six months, what with better pay for the police and the police getting like tougher with young hooli - gans and perverts and burglars and all that cal."