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gang Lumbering, Hist. 
n. a work-crew of loggers (def. 1).
See also: logger (def. 1)
- 1832 Immediately after breakfast, they divide into three gangs; one of which cuts down the trees, another hews them, and the third is employed with the oxen in hauling the timber. . . .
- 1854 Three men and a cook form a "gang";--two cut down the tree, line and score it, that is, split out the outer slabs so as to make it four-sided. . . .
- 1945 A gang was counted upon to "make" about 30,000 cubic feet in a season.
- 1964 Log jams on the Ottawa which held up the drive and filled taverns with rival gangs of Irish and French, were almost certain to brew trouble.
- 1832 Immediately after breakfast, they divide into three gangs; one of which cuts down the trees, another hews them, and the third is employed with the oxen in hauling the timber. . . .