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gangway|ˈgæŋweɪ|
[OE. gangweᵹ, f. gang n.1 + weᵹ way; cf. G. (dial.) gangweg, ON. gangvegr, Sw. gångväg.]
1. A road, thoroughfare, or passage of any kind; rarely, a ‘lane’ opened through a crowd. Obs. exc. dial.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 146/31 Actus, anes wænes gangweᵹ. Uia, tweᵹra wæna gangweᵹ. 1736Lewis Hist. Thanet Gloss., Gang-way, a thorowfare, entry, passage. 1788J. May Jrnl. & Lett. (1873) 99 Near this place was cut..a vista through the forests..forty feet wide..making a magnificent gangway. 1802Spencer in Naval Chron. VII. 81 We got a gangway made among the ship's company for the Admiral to walk forward. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Gang-way, a frequented thoroughfare.
2. a. A passage in a house or other building; esp. a passage between rows of seats in a public edifice.
1702Burlesque L'Estrange's Quevedo 102 To thrust thro' Doors, or some Gang-way. 1834Brit. Husb. I. 100 The beast-house contains standing for sixteen head of cattle, eight on each side of the gang-way. 1877J. C. Cox Ch. Derbysh. III. 239 The monument..used to be in the gang⁓way of the nave. 1891Times 10 Oct. 11/2 The plan of filling up the gangways with stools cannot be commended.
b. In the House of Commons, the cross-passage about half-way down the house, giving access to the rear-benches. Rarely pl.
The members sitting above the gangway are the ministers and ex-ministers with such private members as profess more or less close agreement with the policy of the official leaders of their respective parties.
1875F. I. Scudamore Day Dreams 3 Counting the members as they passed the gangway. 1876World V. No. 107. 4 The applause..was almost wholly confined to a handful of English Radicals below the gangway. 1886Manch. Exam. 14 Jan. 5/6 Members unable to obtain places were inconveniently crowded about the gangways.
c. Build. (See quot.)
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 585 Gangway; in building, the temporary rough stair, set up for ascending or descending, before the regular stair is built.
3. Naut.
a. A narrow platform on deep-waisted ships, leading from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, for convenience in walking from one to the other: = gangboard 1.
1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2317/1 Our Commander, being..forward by the Gang-Way giving his Orders, the Gun split and struck him down. 1748Anson's Voy. i. iii. (ed. 4) 42 Some endeavoured to escape along the gangways into the forecastle. 1797Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 42, I passed..on the larboard gang-way, to the forecastle. 1865Kingsley Herew. v, A fighting gangway along the sides.
b. A narrow passage left in the hold of a laden ship.
1780in Falconer Dict. Marine.
c. The opening in the bulwarks by which persons enter or leave a vessel; now more commonly the means of communication laid between this and the shore or another vessel. (Cf. gang-board 2 and gang-plank.)
1780Falconer Dict. Marine, Gangway is also that part of a ship's side, both within and without, by which the passengers enter and depart. It is for this purpose provided with a sufficient number of steps, or cleats, nailed upon the ship's side, nearly as low as the surface of the water; and sometimes furnished with a railed accommodation-ladder. 1799Nelson in Nicolas Disp. & Lett. (1845) I. 5 The Master ran to the gangway to get into the boat. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 285 Captain Lake came on deck, and came to the gangway. 1833Marryat P. Simple ix, The whole ship's company..had assembled at the gangways. 1848Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xi. (1879) 105 The carts..would have done for gangways at steamboat piers. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 330 They came full soon To where the gangway ran out from the ship On to the black pier. 1877Black Green Past. xxvii, Then we climbed up the gangway and reached the deck of the noble and stately ship.
d. A plank along the bottom of a rowing-boat. (= gang-board 3.)
1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. xiii. (1894) 304 The corpulent elder, who rowed when boats had gangways down their middle.
e. to bring to the gangway: ‘to punish a seaman by seizing him up to a grating, there to undergo flogging’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
1815in Falconer's Dict. Marine (ed. Burney).
f. Used interjectionally, as a demand to clear the way.
1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 101 Gangway, make way for a naval officer! An expression, heard sometimes among New Army men in the War,..meaning ‘Get out of the way’, ‘Stand back’, ‘Clear a passage’. ‘Gangway!’ is ordinarily a common warning call on board ship, meaning as above. 1942O. Nash Good Intentions 56 Gangway, you motoring proletariat. 1946E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh (1947) iv. 219 Gangway for two good whores!
4. Mining. (See quots.)
1776Pryce Min. Cornub. 321 Gangway. When a Fissure or Lode is excavated in the backs or former upper workings of the Mine, it is sallered with boards, and the deads are thrown there..: however, if they leave room sufficient for the workmen to roll stuff, or walk upon them from one Shaft to another, they call it a Gangway. 1824J. Mander Derbysh. Miner's Gloss., Gangway is the horizontal passage made in the Mine, along which the Bouse is conveyed to the tail end of the shaft. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Gangway, a main level, applied chiefly to coal mines.
5. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 2 a) gangway seat; gangway-bridge, -ladder (see quots.); gangwayman, one in charge at a ship's gangway (in loading); gangway netting, in war-ships, the netting with which the gangway between quarter-deck and forecastle is fenced, and in which some of the hammocks are stowed.
1791R. Mylne Rep. Thames & Isis 53 Upon this weir, a sloping *gangway bridge, with double railing, should be constructed so as to go across the Bridge.
1883W. C. Russell Sailors' Lang., *Gangway-ladder, a ladder over the side by which a ship is entered.
1882Standard 26 Aug. 3/7 A man should have watched the case and given orders to the *gangwayman.
1805in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1846) VII. 194 note, The *gangway netting and hammocks completely shot to pieces.
1924Galsworthy White Monkey i. iii. 19 They occupied those *gangway seats in the front row of the dress circle of which Fleur had a sort of natural monopoly. 1939G. Greene 19 Stories (1947) 155 He sat down in a gangway seat. 1971E. Paul Reluctant Cloak & Dagger Man x. 123, I walked up the plane and saw that Tanya had a window seat. The gangway seat next to her was empty. |