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Colin, you go and furl the fore to'gans'l, and if the men are still busy on the tops'l yards, pass the gaskets round the main to'gans'l as well. "

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

"Clew up fore and main to'gans'ls," he shouted; "take in the tops'ls.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

But what the Government was really most boastful about was the way in which they reckoned the streets had been made safer for all peace-loving night-walking lewdies in the last six months, what with better pay for the police and the police getting like tougher with young hooli - gans and perverts and burglars and all that cal.

Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

Cymbopogon spp. (ganaune gans) is another short grass species that occurs in distinct associations on the floodplain and is eaten by greater one-horned rhinoceroses and elephants.

Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands 2008

A related word is "gosling" for a baby goose, and the German word for goose is "gans".

Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #156 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

More of Mephistopheles - novel gans title, loses some cohesion and some other stuff like Utah Saints

More of Mephistopheles - novel gans title, loses some cohesion and some other stuff like Utah Saints deep_bluze 2004

Or is it pronounced like the name sci-fi writers have given the blue-skinned aliens from far-off Vega: VEE-gans or VAY-gans?

languagehat.com: VEGAN. 2005

He knew there had to be more to it than that, of course; they'd make him volunteer for some sort of experiment, or donate some of his or­gans gans, or submit to voluntary castration first.

Starfish 1999

I had told him this more than once on our journey to Jerusalem, and indeed, I was innocent of any urge to rebel against the eagle of these pa - gans.

The Gospel according to the Son Mailer, Norman 1997

Ye knaa the lad she gans wi ', they caall him Jimmy Green,

Keep Yor Feet Still Geordie Hinney 1996