n. One who or that which gangs or goes; a goer; a walker.n. One who conducts or superintends a gang or squad, as the foreman of a gang of laborers or plate-layers on a railway.n. In coal-mining, one who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.n. Nautical, a length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.