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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Gangand, ppl. adj. Also: gangande, gangan. [Northern ME. gangand (a 1300), ON. gangande, -andi, OE. gangende.]

1. Going on foot, walking. c1420 Wynt. vii. 1257.
Kyng Dawy Had gottyn … A sowne, that wes a gangand chyld a1500 Bk. Chess 180.
A gangand travalour … gois nocht allanerly to go 1543 Lanark B. Rec. 19.
Geif ony nychtbur of the town byis ony stollyn geyr fra ony gangand fallowis 1560 Rolland Seven S. 4009.
Crop of curstnes, and ane quick gangand deill a1598 Fergusson Prov. (1641) 3 b.
A gangand fit is ay getting

2. Of machinery or implements: Capable of being set in motion; in working order. (Cf. Ganging ppl. a.) 1485 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 51.
All sufficient gangand graith that efferis to the mylnis 1512 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 109.
The said … myllar sall mak and wphald … all uther graith and gangand geir 1523 Stirling B. Rec. I. 18.
Ane gangand quheil 1562 Will A. Betoun 225.
Ane cart and vij pair harrowys with all gangand geir 1566 Prot. Bk. D. Gray 38 b.
Ane gangand plewcht pertenyng to Jhone Ȝong 1589 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 136.
Ane sufficient gangand myln with sufficient happar, hup, quheillis [etc.] 1597 Edinb. Test. XXX. 12 b.
Ane gangand lynning lwme with hir pertinentis 1598 Ib. XXXI. 324 b.
Twa gangand cairtis 1614 Edinb. B. Rec. VI. 118.
That he sall mak and sett up ane sufficient gangand knok in the said weyhous 1628 Soc. Ant. XXIII. 267.
Twa cairts and thrie gangand plewis

b. In operation; that is being worked. 1543 Carte Northberwic 64.
He sall vin ... ane sufficiant gangand coill [heuch] 1556 Prot. Bk. T. Dalrymple 43 b.
He haid nocht falit to him hyddertillis … salang as he haid ane gangand colhuch 1575 Reg. Privy C. II. 427.
Of every gangand pan in Dysert thre bollis of salt sal be deliverit oulklie 1630 Reg. Great S. 542/2.
Novam lie salt-pan in Weymes, cum lie pan-wode de proximioribus lie gangand coilheuches