Vang Definition

văng

noun

A rope or either of two ropes attached to a gaff and used to control its lateral movement.

Webster's New World

A rope or an arrangement of ropes and pulleys attached to the boom of a fore-and-aft sail and used to hold the boom down and flatten the sail.

Webster's New World

verb

(dialectal, as a godparent) To undertake for at the Font; be godfather or godmother to.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Vang

Singular:

vang

Plural:

vangs

From Middle English vangen, southern variant of fangen (“to seize, catch"), from Old English fōn (“to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake, meet with, encounter"), and Old Norse fanga (“to fetch, capture"), both from Proto-Germanic *fanhanÄ…, *fangōnÄ… (“to catch, capture"), from Proto-Indo-European *paḱ- (“to fasten, place"). Cognate with West Frisian fange (“to catch"), Dutch vangen (“to catch"), German fangen (“to catch"), Danish fange (“to catch"). More at fang.

From Wiktionary
Dutch a catch from vangen to catch pag- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Dutch vangen (“to catch").

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