The present participle of ganch; the practice or act of executing by impalement.
Standard English '-ing' form of 'ganch,' creating both a present participle verb form and a gerund noun form.
While the practice is mercifully extinct, 'ganching' lives on in historical texts about Ottoman warfare and executions—it's one of those specialty historical terms that proves English speakers learned horrible details from neighbors.
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