1. The navy resorted to the press-gang.

2. Favorite Add to Nepoleonic Bosuns Cosh/Cudgel, Press Gang Cissbury

3. I don't want to press-gang you into doing something you're not happy with.

4. The Tory party is often an amiable shambles, but the Maastricht process is turning it into a neurotic press gang.

5. Impressment, essentially conscription by the "press gang", was a favored recruiting method, though it was unpopular with the public, leading many to enlist in local militias to avoid regular service.

6. If you managed to elude the press-gang, the Bawds posing as helpful old dears in order to ensnare girls into brothels, the alcoholism, gambling, card sharps, pick-pockets, priggers, highwaymen