It sometimes happens that there are four, when persons of distinction go to their country houses. The gondoliers never sit down but row the barge standing upright and push forward. One man always plies in the fore part of the gondola, and the other is at the poop.
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an ensign or standard.
GONG, the Persian word for a village.
GONG WALLAS, villagers, the militia in India so called; from gong, a village, and wallas, a man.
GORGE. See [Fortification].
Gorge, Fr. likewise means any hollow between a chain of mountains, that affords a passage into an open country.
Gorge, Fr. a sort of concave moulding belonging to ornamental architecture.
GORGERIN, Fr. in ancient times, that part of the armor which covered the neck of a man. Hence our word gorget.
GORGONS, in military antiquity, a warlike female nation of Libya, in Africa, who had frequent quarrels with another nation of the same sex, called Amazons.