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Definition of press gang in English: press gangnoun historical A body of men employed to enlist men forcibly into service in the army or navy. Example sentencesExamples - In many ways, these tactics echo the naval press gangs of the Napoleonic era.
- A press gang might withdraw, releasing its victims.
- Whalebone corsets, colonial uprisings, scurvy, press gangs, and monocles popping out in astonishment shall be the order of the day.
- Many of those fleeing are trying to escape the press gangs to which the militia have resorted to fill the ranks of their army.
- The days when press gangs scavenged pubs to seduce volunteers with rum were long gone.
- Opposition to British press gangs that forced men into the Royal Navy led to a number of colonial riots, most notably the 1747 Knowles riot in Boston.
- We also watched a 20-minute film about a ruthless press gang scouring dockside pubs for unsuspecting naval recruits.
- He's afraid of kidnappers, slave traders, heart attacks, press gangs, spiders, Wallace and Gromit, and the dark.
- However, he escaped jail after telling the court he took the boat to escape a press gang trying to kidnap him.
- The ghostly pirates of the Black Pearl all talk with the absurd Jolly Jack Tar accents that one associates with press gangs and poop decks.
- The Marine Society offered an alternative to the press gang, a violent and socially divisive method of conscription which the perpetually under-manned Royal Navy used in every war.
- A few were downright bloody-minded, seeing little difference between their call up and the press gangs of Britain's distant past.
- There were riots in London in 1794 and 1795 against army recruitment methods, while seafaring communities throughout the empire resisted naval press gangs.
- I was not burning with ambition to be elevated benchwards, merely putting myself in the way of the judicial press gang, should it wish to pick me up.
- It would definitely have taken a press gang to get a tall bloke like me to join the Navy in the early 19th century.
- The reason for the difference was the traditional Royal Navy view that all officers were volunteers, but that, recalling the press gang, ratings were generally not so in wartime.
- You could almost imagine the smugglers, pirates, press gangs and seafarers who at one time inhabited this ancient fishing port.
- Under the rubric of ‘Crime’ the author argues that press gangs did the work of magistrates by reducing crime in time of war.
- The songs she chooses are riddled with love, death and yarns about sailing ships and press gangs.
- On the run, and in a panic, they find an unintended refuge in the clutches of a press gang.
verb [with object]press-ganghistorical 1Forcibly enlist (someone) into service in the army or navy. Example sentencesExamples - Eleven-year-old Sam Witchall is press-ganged into Nelson's navy to work as a ‘powder monkey’ - the boy who carries gunpowder from barrels in the hold to cannons on the gun deck.
- By the time we returned to the small fishing village of Marigot, I didn't need to be press-ganged into the crew.
- ‘No one intends to press-gang students into the Army,’ Ivanov said Friday.
- In the 18th century, life at sea on the tall ships was so miserable that crews had to be press-ganged into service.
- In pursuit of an errant husband she found herself press-ganged into the army in 1745 and fought in India as a marine, later becoming a national celebrity.
- Thousands of children were often press-ganged into their bloody civil war, wielding assault rifles on the streets instead of pens in the classroom.
- Villagers told a BBC journalist who visited the area that locals had been press-ganged into joining the attack without being told who was the target.
- Young men were press-ganged into the burgeoning rabble of the army, where the discipline of the elite units could not hope to reach.
- You'll have to be my cover until I press-gang him aboard with a bit of my much vaunted legerdemain.
- He made a living as a schoolmaster and a spailpín (itinerant labourer). He joined - or was press-ganged into - the navy, and served under Admiral Rodney.
- A market, lantern procession and fireworks are planned, and the organiser is hoping to find local actors or historical reenactors to dress up in period costume and press gang members of the public into joining Nelson's navy.
- It is a cruel misnomer for the thousands of children and adults abducted or press-ganged into service in the militias or government army.
- Another danger for Whitby men was of being press-ganged into the Royal Navy, and they would try all kinds of tricks to escape the attentions of the Press Gang.
- It's not only the government that press-gangs children into battle.
- The story revolves around an 81 year-old who was press-ganged into the army in China and came to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek.
- In the 18th century, men deprived of their small holdings in the agricultural revolution were either press-ganged into the navy or army or transported to America and Australia if they broke the law.
- Early in the plot, the two oldest Strang brothers, Mark and Luke, are press-ganged into His Majesty's fleets.
- The show takes elements of Stevenson's 1886 classic novel Kidnapped, in which a young boy is press-ganged on to a ship during the Napoleonic wars by his Scrooge-like uncle.
Synonyms compel, coerce, make, constrain, oblige, impel, drive, necessitate, pressurize, pressure, press, push - 1.1press-gang someone into Force someone to do something.
we press-ganged Simon into playing Example sentencesExamples - A woman died after a police officer was press-ganged into driving an ambulance following a road accident in Liverpool, last week.
- Pulling out all the stops, he press-ganged part-time guide John into service to take us out.
- It costs less to press-gang drivers into doing excessive amounts of overtime than to recruit, train and pay new drivers.
- The ambulance officers ‘did what they could’ but had to press gang a police officer to drive their vehicle back to Liverpool.
- But the genuine power of such stories is ultimately devalued by this tendency to press gang any old tale into the mythology of a particular city.
- To avoid a diesel being cold started, some railway members were press-ganged into manually shunting the coach into the freight siding to clear the road.
- Second, it press-gangs manufacturers and dealers into service as adjuncts to law enforcement.
- So great was her love for Stevenson that she used to press-gang the neighbourhood kids into dramatising passages from Kidnapped.
- I've a great love for music and even when I'm not working I'll practise every day, unless I'm press-ganged into a shopping trip by my wife.
- Ann was otherwise engaged so I press-ganged a colleague into joining me.
- The course was overwhelmed with players and there was great difficulty in securing enough caddies for the day, so the usual assortment of gardeners and drivers were press-ganged into service.
- Her motive was likely to have been to press-gang an unwary man into Aunt Fanny's Sewing Circle, the court was told.
- Rubin, in a sense, press-gangs Stella into an old battle.
- ‘We don't have to press-gang artists into looking at these issues,’ says Lynch.
- This weekend I paid my karmic dues after press-ganging my mates into helping shift my stuff around London by helping my sister and bro-in-law, Lucy and Jeff, move into their new house.
Definition of press gang in US English: press gangnounˈprɛs ˌɡæŋˈpres ˌɡaNG historical A body of men employed to enlist men forcibly into service in the army or navy. Example sentencesExamples - However, he escaped jail after telling the court he took the boat to escape a press gang trying to kidnap him.
- The Marine Society offered an alternative to the press gang, a violent and socially divisive method of conscription which the perpetually under-manned Royal Navy used in every war.
- I was not burning with ambition to be elevated benchwards, merely putting myself in the way of the judicial press gang, should it wish to pick me up.
- We also watched a 20-minute film about a ruthless press gang scouring dockside pubs for unsuspecting naval recruits.
- You could almost imagine the smugglers, pirates, press gangs and seafarers who at one time inhabited this ancient fishing port.
- The days when press gangs scavenged pubs to seduce volunteers with rum were long gone.
- On the run, and in a panic, they find an unintended refuge in the clutches of a press gang.
- Whalebone corsets, colonial uprisings, scurvy, press gangs, and monocles popping out in astonishment shall be the order of the day.
- Opposition to British press gangs that forced men into the Royal Navy led to a number of colonial riots, most notably the 1747 Knowles riot in Boston.
- Under the rubric of ‘Crime’ the author argues that press gangs did the work of magistrates by reducing crime in time of war.
- He's afraid of kidnappers, slave traders, heart attacks, press gangs, spiders, Wallace and Gromit, and the dark.
- In many ways, these tactics echo the naval press gangs of the Napoleonic era.
- The ghostly pirates of the Black Pearl all talk with the absurd Jolly Jack Tar accents that one associates with press gangs and poop decks.
- The songs she chooses are riddled with love, death and yarns about sailing ships and press gangs.
- It would definitely have taken a press gang to get a tall bloke like me to join the Navy in the early 19th century.
- Many of those fleeing are trying to escape the press gangs to which the militia have resorted to fill the ranks of their army.
- There were riots in London in 1794 and 1795 against army recruitment methods, while seafaring communities throughout the empire resisted naval press gangs.
- The reason for the difference was the traditional Royal Navy view that all officers were volunteers, but that, recalling the press gang, ratings were generally not so in wartime.
- A press gang might withdraw, releasing its victims.
- A few were downright bloody-minded, seeing little difference between their call up and the press gangs of Britain's distant past.
verbˈprɛs ˌɡæŋˈpres ˌɡaNG [with object]press-ganghistorical 1Forcibly enlist (someone) into service in the army or navy. Example sentencesExamples - It's not only the government that press-gangs children into battle.
- The show takes elements of Stevenson's 1886 classic novel Kidnapped, in which a young boy is press-ganged on to a ship during the Napoleonic wars by his Scrooge-like uncle.
- In pursuit of an errant husband she found herself press-ganged into the army in 1745 and fought in India as a marine, later becoming a national celebrity.
- He made a living as a schoolmaster and a spailpín (itinerant labourer). He joined - or was press-ganged into - the navy, and served under Admiral Rodney.
- It is a cruel misnomer for the thousands of children and adults abducted or press-ganged into service in the militias or government army.
- Thousands of children were often press-ganged into their bloody civil war, wielding assault rifles on the streets instead of pens in the classroom.
- A market, lantern procession and fireworks are planned, and the organiser is hoping to find local actors or historical reenactors to dress up in period costume and press gang members of the public into joining Nelson's navy.
- In the 18th century, life at sea on the tall ships was so miserable that crews had to be press-ganged into service.
- Another danger for Whitby men was of being press-ganged into the Royal Navy, and they would try all kinds of tricks to escape the attentions of the Press Gang.
- By the time we returned to the small fishing village of Marigot, I didn't need to be press-ganged into the crew.
- Young men were press-ganged into the burgeoning rabble of the army, where the discipline of the elite units could not hope to reach.
- Eleven-year-old Sam Witchall is press-ganged into Nelson's navy to work as a ‘powder monkey’ - the boy who carries gunpowder from barrels in the hold to cannons on the gun deck.
- In the 18th century, men deprived of their small holdings in the agricultural revolution were either press-ganged into the navy or army or transported to America and Australia if they broke the law.
- The story revolves around an 81 year-old who was press-ganged into the army in China and came to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek.
- Early in the plot, the two oldest Strang brothers, Mark and Luke, are press-ganged into His Majesty's fleets.
- Villagers told a BBC journalist who visited the area that locals had been press-ganged into joining the attack without being told who was the target.
- ‘No one intends to press-gang students into the Army,’ Ivanov said Friday.
- You'll have to be my cover until I press-gang him aboard with a bit of my much vaunted legerdemain.
Synonyms compel, coerce, make, constrain, oblige, impel, drive, necessitate, pressurize, pressure, press, push - 1.1press-gang someone into Force someone to do something.
we press-ganged Simon into playing Example sentencesExamples - But the genuine power of such stories is ultimately devalued by this tendency to press gang any old tale into the mythology of a particular city.
- ‘We don't have to press-gang artists into looking at these issues,’ says Lynch.
- So great was her love for Stevenson that she used to press-gang the neighbourhood kids into dramatising passages from Kidnapped.
- Rubin, in a sense, press-gangs Stella into an old battle.
- Pulling out all the stops, he press-ganged part-time guide John into service to take us out.
- Second, it press-gangs manufacturers and dealers into service as adjuncts to law enforcement.
- This weekend I paid my karmic dues after press-ganging my mates into helping shift my stuff around London by helping my sister and bro-in-law, Lucy and Jeff, move into their new house.
- It costs less to press-gang drivers into doing excessive amounts of overtime than to recruit, train and pay new drivers.
- I've a great love for music and even when I'm not working I'll practise every day, unless I'm press-ganged into a shopping trip by my wife.
- A woman died after a police officer was press-ganged into driving an ambulance following a road accident in Liverpool, last week.
- The course was overwhelmed with players and there was great difficulty in securing enough caddies for the day, so the usual assortment of gardeners and drivers were press-ganged into service.
- To avoid a diesel being cold started, some railway members were press-ganged into manually shunting the coach into the freight siding to clear the road.
- Ann was otherwise engaged so I press-ganged a colleague into joining me.
- Her motive was likely to have been to press-gang an unwary man into Aunt Fanny's Sewing Circle, the court was told.
- The ambulance officers ‘did what they could’ but had to press gang a police officer to drive their vehicle back to Liverpool.
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