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A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapultA ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult.
Meaning
3 senses(Australia)A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult.
(informal)A redhead, a ginger-haired person
(obsolete)A company; troop; a gang.
Origin
From Middle English gyng, gynge, genge, from Old English genge (“a troop, privy, company,From Middle English gyng, gynge, genge, from Old English genge (“a troop, privy, company, retinue”), from Old Norse gengi, from Proto-Germanic *gangiją (“pace, walk”). Cognate with Middle Low German gink (“a going, turn, way”), Old Norse gengi (“accompaniment, entourage, help”), Icelandic gengi (“rate”). Related to Old English gengan (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *gangijaną (“to go”). More at gang.
Perhaps onomatopoeic.
From ginger.
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