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GAMMUT

Volume 2 · 58 words · 1771 Edition

in music, a scale whereon we learn to sound the musical notes, ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, in their several orders and dispositions. See Music.

GANG-WAY is the several passages or ways from one part of the ship to the other; and whatever is laid in any of those passages, is said to lie in the gang-way.