About The Word Gangway
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Gangway
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What's The Definition Of Gangway?
[n] passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores
[n] a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside [n] a temporary passageway of planks (as over mud on a building site) Synonyms | Synonyms for Gangway: aisle | gangboard | gangplank Related Terms | Find terms related to Gangway: access | adit | air lock | approach | bascule bridge | bateau bridge | Bifrost | bridge | cantilever bridge | catwalk | corridor | drawbridge | entrance | entranceway | entry | entryway | floating bridge | flyover | footbridge | gangboard | gangplank | hall | in | ingress | inlet | intake | lift bridge | means of access | opening | overbridge | overcrossing | overpass | passage | passageway | pontoon bridge | rope bridge | span | stepping-stone | stepstone | suspension bridge | swing bridge | toll bridge | vestibule | viaduct | way | way in See Also | footbridge | overcrossing | passageway | pedestrian bridge Gangway In Webster's Dictionary \Gang"way`\, n. [See {Gang}, v. i.]
1. A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp.,
a temporary way of access formed of planks.
2. In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the
house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly
either with the government or with the opposition.
3. (Naut.) The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by
which persons enter or leave it.
4. (Naut.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each
side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the
forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist. --Totten.
{Gangway ladder}, a ladder rigged on the side of a vessel at
the gangway.
{To bring to the gangway}, to punish (a seaman) by flogging
him at the gangway.
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