Gingerbread work

Work cut or formed into fanciful shapes for ornament, similar to those usually traced on gingerbread; hence, any fanciful, tawdry, or fantastic work. Gin'ger Hill, in Pennsylvania, a village of Washing ton co. Gin'ger Island. See VIRGIN ISLANDS. Gin'gerly, adv . [A. S. geongra , comp. of geong , young.] Cautiously; timidly; delicately; tenderly; gently; as, a gingerly spoken man. "What is 't that you Took up so gingerly?"-Shaks.