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ˈgang-plank orig. U.S.
Also gangplank.
[f. gang n.1 + plank.]
A landing-plank; a gang-board.
1846Knickerbocker XXVII. 469 The last bell rang; the gangplank was drawn in-board; the hawsers were cast off. 1861Olmsted Journ. Cotton Kingd. I. 142 A fat mulatto woman..shouted, as she caught him off the gang-plank, ‘Oh Massa George, is you come back!’ 1887Times 29 Aug. 4/5 The moment the gang-planks are fixed a crowd of stevedores rush aboard. 1961F. M. Burgess Dict. Sailing 100 Gang⁓plank, a long narrow plank, fitted with treads, to enable people to walk over the bow of a beached boat. |