Noun:

ਪ੍ਰੈਸ ਗੈਂਗ,

press gangs's Usage Examples:

During his career, Bartholomew was twice seized by press gangs and forced to serve as a sailor in the Navy, the second occasion at the.

Ecuadorian and Colombian rubber collectors (caucheros) and their native press gangs worked this part of the upper Aguarico and Putumayo watersheds, shooting.

Oxcliffe, is locally known as Snatchems, as it was once a place that press gangs frequented.

As the press gangs approached they were noticed, and the crews of both Indiamen were piped.

armed press gangs into Halifax, where they fought with townspeople.

The press gangs would.

of the Masisi found many internal refugees and accounts of robbery, press gangs and forced labor, water supply problems and shortages of medical supplies.

The Navy provided the Fencibles with uniforms and weapons; it also protected them from the depredations of navy press gangs.

19th-century accounts do not relate to voter fraud but instead, describe press gangs that used cooping to pressure recruits for the Union Army during the.

This was contrary to the normal restrictions under which press gangs operated; which were intended to limit forced recruiting to professional.

uniforms and weapons; it also protected them from the depredations of navy press gangs.

Impressment, particularly press gangs, became consistently unpopular with the British public (as well as in.

The Navy used guard boats as floating press gangs, conscripting every fiftieth man out of ships entering the harbour.

Synonyms:

weigh down, drag down, grind, squelch, mash, push, squeeze, knuckle, touch, craunch, crunch, crush, cranch, press down on, squash, bear down on, bear down,

Antonyms:

beseeching, curse, bless, outbid, underbid,