pressganging
Coerced naval enlistment
Pressganging is forcing people into military or naval service against their will.
The practice was common in 18th-century Britain, where press gangs roamed port towns seizing men for the Royal Navy.
Now used figuratively for any coercive recruitment: They pressganged me into organizing the office party.
Also spelled press-ganging.
Kidnapping into naval service
- conscriptionMandatory military enrollment
- crimpsPinches into waves
- Royal NavyUK naval military branch
- AdmiraltyGovernment body governing fleets
man-of-war · frigate · ship-of-the-line · sailors · mariners · seafaring · deckhand · midshipman
Kidnapping into naval service
- merchantmenCommercial cargo ships
- sailorsMaritime vessel crew members
- seafaringTraveling by ocean vessel
- vesselsCarriers or containers
crimps · dockyards · taverns · harbor · waterfront · clipper · schooner · brigantine
Kidnapping into naval service
- Age of SailEra of wind-propelled ships
- 18th centuryYears 1701-1800
- Napoleonic WarsBonaparte's military campaigns
- wooden shipsVessels built from lumber
sea shanties · scurvy · mutiny · warships · conscription · enlistment · taverns · dockyards
shanghaiing
Kidnapping into naval service
- conscriptionMandatory military enrollment
- crimpsPinches into waves
- Royal NavyUK naval military branch
Admiralty · man-of-war · frigate · ship-of-the-line · sailors · mariners · seafaring · deckhand · midshipman · boatswain
shanghaiing
Kidnapping into naval service
- merchantmenCommercial cargo ships
- sailorsMaritime vessel crew members
- seafaringTraveling by ocean vessel
vessels · crimps · dockyards · taverns · harbor · waterfront · clipper · schooner · brigantine · barque
shanghaiing
Kidnapping into naval service
- Age of SailEra of wind-propelled ships
- 18th centuryYears 1701-1800
- Napoleonic WarsBonaparte's military campaigns
wooden ships · sea shanties · scurvy · mutiny · warships · conscription · enlistment · taverns · dockyards · crimps
pressgangingvoluntary enlistment
Unpressured military signup
volunteering · enlisting · signing up · opting in · joining up
pressgangingreleasing
Allowing to escape
freeing · discharging · liberating · emancipating · letting go
pressgangingenticement
Something that attracts
persuasion · attraction · wooing · headhunting · solicitation
express, expression, depressed, impressive, depression, impressed, expressive, oppressed, suppressed