gangsmann.

1740 Gen. Evening Post 15 May A Waterside Gangsman..unhappily fell into the River at Billingsgate Dock and was drown'd.

1779 Town & Country Mag. Jan. 52/2 A letter from on board the York East Indiaman, which is on shore in Margate-roads, says, that they have plenty of gangsmen at work in taking out the cargo.

1843 J. C. Platt in C. Knight London V. cvii. 102 Watermen, lightermen, and City-porters called gangsmen, were equally active.

1867 Rep. Select Comm. Fire Protection 207/2 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 471) X. 1 In the Liverpool Docks, I have no doubt that, in addition to the police, they have got a large number of warehousemen and gangs-men who are quite ready to run up without waiting for the fire bell.

1917 Art World 2 122/1 The Russia of the peasant, the Volga gangsman and the moujik plowman.

1955 T. S. Ashton Econ. Hist. Eng.: 18th Cent. vii. 208 The mates of the West Indiamen had a right to the sweepings of sugar and coffee from the hold of the ship; the gangsmen and coopers established a claim to the drainings of molasses and spilt sugar.

1991 P. Linebaugh London Hanged v. 167 On the river front the tacklehouse contractors and the ticket gangsmen entered a price war of competitive fee reduction.

1803 W. Tatham Rep. Impediments Thames 122 These companies were subdivided into five gangs of twelve men each, commanded by a gangsman.

1843 Penny Mag. 12 Aug. 309/2 Those requiring labourers would in such a state of things be facilitated by a ‘gangsman’, who became a middle-man between the two classes.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 3 Feb. 2/1 The post of gangsman or ‘mate’ is thus a good one.

1911 F. Savile Road vi. 47 He went to see the section gangsman, who had disappeared.

1932 T. H. Robinson Hist. Israel I. iii. xi. 255 We can understand the need for 3,300 overseers and gangsmen.

1999 R. P. Fuke Imperfect Equality ii. 31 Workers served as overseers or gangsmen.

1912 P. G. Wodehouse Prince & Betty xix. 190 Physical courage is not an outstanding quality of the New York gangsman.

1923 Glasgow Herald 30 Aug. 7 The complete story of the gangsmen and their crimes.

1963 E. P. Hoyt Tempering Years xiv. 252 Soon, even the underworld's hand was turned against him, for he was bringing trouble and bad reputation to the less spectacular gangsmen.

2002 Pakistan Newswire (Nexis) 6 Mar. The police also arrested 16 gangsmen of certain gangs and succeeded in solving 57 cases.