Gang

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gang

Add: I. going, walking, moving on foot, step. (1) of living beings :-- Þǣr nǣfre feóndes ne bid gang on lande, An. 1696. Petrus mid his gange getācnode ǣgder ge dā strangan ge dā unstrangan on Godes folce, Hml. Th. ii. 390, 16. Þurh his fōta gange ambulando, Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 349, 14. Gif ic mīne heorde þrafige on gancge (in ambulando), R. Ben. 120, 20. Tō rāde oþþe tō gange for riding or walking, Ll. Th. i. 232, 15. Wid fōta sāre fram miclum gange, Lch. ii. 68, 16 : 6, 18. Hrædne gang rapidum gressum. An. Ox. 50, 43. Hȳ habbaþ þæs þe leóhtran gang, Lch. i. 342, 12. Wǣron hyra gongas smēde and gesēfte, Gū. 703. Mid gongum, mid rādum, oþþe mid þȳ þe hine mon here oþþe on wǣne ferige, Lch. ii. 30, 28. (l a) the sole of the foot (?) :-- Wid fōtswylum . . . haran lungen . . . neoþan tō gewriþen, wundorlīce þā gongas beóþ gehǣlede, Lch. i. 342, 19. (1 b) the being habitually in a specified condition. Cf. gan; I. 5 :-- Be sceápes gonge mid his fliése. Sceáp sceal gongan mid his fliése od midne sumor, Ll. Th. i. 146, 9. (2) of things :-- Freóbearn wurdon ālǣten līges gange, Dan. 263. Mid swātes gange with the flow of blood, Kr. 23. Wǣgea gangas þonne sǣstreámas swīdust flōwad elationes maris, Ps. Th. 92, 5. (2 a) of non-material things :-- Ǣrmorgenes gancg exitus matutini, Ps. Th. 64, 9. Þē untrymnes ādle gongum (with attacks of disease) bysgade, Gū. 990. II. power of walking or of moving about :-- Healte men onfēngon heora gonge. Shrn. 137, 27. Wē gedōd þæt hī gān ne magon . . . Wē forgifad him nū gang. Hml. Th. ii. 486, 15. III. mode of walking, walk, gait :-- Eustachius hī behealdende be heora gewunelican gange hī gecneów, Hml. S. 30, 234. Mid swȳde sorhleásum and bealdum gange secure gressu ac libero. Gr. D. 319, 17. IV. a walk, journey :-- Tō leáne his gauges, Gr. D. 143, 6. Woerig of gonge (geong, L.) fatigatus ex itinere, Jn. R. 4, 6. Gong (geong, L.) dōn iter facere, Lk. R. 13, 22. Geong l fær iter, Lk. L. 10, 33: Rtl. 176, 23. Þurh þīn sylfes gong tō eordan, Cri. 254. Forhabban hine wyd micele gangas, Lch. iii. 134, 19. IV a. like colloquial go, time, occasion of going :-- Gehwæþerne gang swīgende either time (going and returning) in silence, Lch. ii. 76, 17. V. a way, road, path, passage :-- Þā ongunnon hī būton ǣlcere lættinge in gangan; mē thorn-bar; godcunde mægen þæs ganges bewerede. Hml. S. 23 b, 408. Wæs on gange gifu oft geæhted, B. 1884. Ic gong tō þām āgan mōste, Jul. 517. Biódon unrehte in gongum (geongom, L.) erunt praua in directa, Lk. R. 3, 5. Gongas (geongas. L.) semitas, Mk. R. 1, 3. Geongas, Lk. L. 3, 4. V a. a track :-- Lāstas wǣton wīde gesȳne, gang ofer grundas, B. 1404. Uton fēran Grendles māgan gang sceáwigan, 1391. VI. course of time or events :-- Eall þæs þe hē in fyrndagum gōdes odde gāles on his gǣste gehlōd geára gongum, Cri. 1036 : Jul. 693. Hū mæg ic þæt findan, þæt swā fyrn geweard wintra gangum ?, El. 633. Wyrda gangum, 1256. VII. a stream of words, a narrative :-- Þæt hē him on spellum gecȳdde, onwrige worda gongum, hū hē his wīsna trūwade, Gū. 1134. VIII. space traversed by that which moves (swiftly), expanse covered :-- Under swegles gang under the canopy of heaven, An. 208: 455. Wolcna gang the cloud-covered sky, Dan. 624. Tungla gong the firmament of moving stars, Cri. 884. Ofer geofones gong overthe rolling expanse of ocean, Ph. 118. Ȳda gelaac, wīd gang wætera, Ps. Th. 118, 136. VIIIa, oxan gang an ox-gang, a bovale, the eighth fart of the carucate. 'The carucate being the extent of land ploughed by one plough, with its team of eight oxen, an eighth of this was considered as the share of each ox of the team,' N. E. D. :-- Hē sealde ān(e) hide būton ānes oxan gang, C. D. B. iii. 370, 5, 7. Twēgra oxena gang, 346, 20. IX. legal process (? cf. Dan. retter-gang legal procedure, process) :-- Ðūs man sceal swerigean donne man hafd his ǣhte gebryid, and bringed hī on gange (cf. ꝥ orf ꝥ, ic on spece, and ꝥ ic mid N. befangen hæbbe, 15), Ll. Th. i. 178, Ii. X. a company of people (?), a gang. Cf. beó-gang, genge :-- Basilius eóde tō ānes preóstes hūse, and hēt his gebrōdra beón his gefēran. Anastasius wæs gehāten se mæssepreóst þe se bisceop tō fundode swā fǣrlīce mid gange . . . Se bisceop gewende mid his gebrōdrum hām. Hml. S. 3, 467. XI. a step, stair :-- Gangas pulpita (cf. in pulpito, in gradu ubi lectores legunt. Ld. Gl. H.), Germ. 394, 221. XII. a privy [N. E. D. gong]:-- Gang latrina, Wrt. Voc. i. 82, 12. Ic ne mæg for sceame þā sceandlican dǣde, þæt ǣnig man sceole etan on gange, swā fūlīce secgan swā hit fūllic is, E. S. viii. 62, 18. v. beó-, ciric-, ears-, laid-, forlig-, geán-, hand-, niþer-, ofer-, rāp-, relic-, samod-, set-, sulh-gang. gang