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单词 to gang one's gait
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to gang one's gait (also way)
2. transitive. To travel or follow (a road, way, course, etc.). Also figurative: to choose or take (a course of action, etc.). Chiefly in to gang one's gait (also way): to go on one's way; to depart; (figurative) to do as one wishes. Cf. go v. 3a, 20b.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > follow (a course of behaviour) [verb (transitive)] > adopt a course
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OE Paris Psalter (1932) cxxvii. 1 Eadige..syndon ealle þe him ecne God drihten ondrædað, and his gedefne weg on hyra lifes tid lustum gangað.
lOE Canterbury Psalter lxxx. 14 Si plebs mea audisset me Israel si vias meas ambulasset : gif folc min gehireþ me Israhele gif wegas mine gangaþ.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 157 Agaynewarde rede I þat we gang The right way to þat same citee.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 380 (MED) Lay on hym þan hardely, And garre hym gang his gate.
c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 803 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 173 Þane tytus bad hyme gange his way.
?1507 Ballad of Kynd Kittok in W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen sig. b.ivv Out of hevin the hie gait cought [1568 cowth] the wif gang.
1613 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 136 Elspet gang your way hame again, ye are in our buiks els.
1650 J. Row Wounds Kirk o' Scotl. 4 Balaam was ganging an unluckie gate.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iv. 18 Tell him he may e'en gan his get, I'll have nothing to do with him.
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. lxxix. 119 Gang your ways, for a crabbed auld cat-a-murrain!
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. iii. 60 [He] lets a' things about the Manse gang whilk gate they will.
1885 J. B. Gough Platform Echoes xxix. 374 Woh, woh! He is gangin' the wrong way.
1904 S. R. Crockett Strong Mac xxxix. 324 Ebenezer Sinclair wad be sair vexed to see ony that belonged to ye gangin' that road.
1955 in D. M. Wolfe New Voices 2 54 Well, gang your way then, tie yoursel' down to him as is neither bachelor nor husband.
2006 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 10 Dec. 14 If the SNP fell short of seats, McConnell could gang his ain gait, relying on Tory votes to support education reforms.
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