ganch

transitive verb

variants or less commonly gansh

ˈganch,

-ȧ-

-ed/-ing/-es

: to execute or kill by impaling on stakes or hooks

field mice … ganched upon the hooks

—D. C. Peattie

Word History

Etymology

modification of Turkish kancalamak to put on a hook, from kanca large hook, modification of Greek gampsos curved

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