Gans

"Clew up fore and main to'gans'ls," he shouted; "take in the tops'ls. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)

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. " ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A related word is "gosling" for a baby goose, and the German word for goose is "gans". ❋ Unknown (2008)

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? ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Mailer, Norman (1997)

Ye knaa the lad she gans wi ', they caall him Jimmy Green, ❋ Unknown (1996)

Ons het 'n gans nuwe fase betree in hierdie veldtog; en ons kon dit doen vanwee verbeterde ko-ordinasie binne die regering;' n toespitsing op dit wat voorkeur verdien; verbeterde intelligensie-vermoe; en die lofwaardige samewerking van die publiek. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Or gans were breaded with embalming powder, and we quickly lifted them out and rinsed some more. ❋ Patricia Cornwell (1994)

Ondertekenaars van die verdrag is dikwels ook gans te verdraagsaam ten opsigte van ander groepe en partye wat verbind is tot of ambivalent is teenoor die sogenaamde gewapende stryd. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Yet the three columns which, like fingers, would squeeze the life from the French army, had not appeared and their lateness meant that the French gans were taking a heavy toll on the plain. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1985)

Fists raised high, the young Frenchmen shouted out slo-gans condemning Soviet imperialism. ❋ Kundera, Milan, 1929- (1984)

He ran a delicate truhand along the exposed surface, won'dering how closely their bodily divisions and internal or-gans would match up. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1982)

They hunted Sarts, Kazakhs, Kirghiz, and Dun-gans that terrible summer like wild game. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)

'One thing Tomin-gans are good at is keeping their mouths shut. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1972)