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OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 85 Uia, twegra wæna gangweg. Actus, anes wænas gang [perh. for gangweg].

1736 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet (ed. 2) Gloss. Gang-way, a thorowfare, entry, passage.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 116/2 Two cart gangways are running through the Market, which gives an easy access for heavy goods to all parts.

1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Gang-way, a frequented thoroughfare.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 139/2 Gangway, a busy thoroughfare.

1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India v. 119 We have required that our Tea be stow'd between Decks, abaft the After-hatch-way with a bulk-Head, and a little gang-way made for Passage.

1780 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) Gangway is likewise used to signify a passage left in the hold, when a ship is laden, in order to arrive at any particular place therein.

1813 Minutes Evid. House of Lords as relates to Charter of E. India Co. 370 Her stowage had passages all the way throughout, like what he called gangways.

1997 J. L. Nelson Maddest Idea xxiii. 271 He kicked the nearest chest over. It tumbled into the gangway between the cargo and broke open.

1785 in Minutes Common Council City N.Y. 1784–1831 (1917) I. 160 The Gutter or Kennel opposite to the middle of the Gangway between the Houses of Thomas Vardell & Benjamin Stout.

1826 J. Maude Visit to Niagara 123 Night moderate. Slept in the gang-way between the two huts forming Davis's house.

1901 I. K. Friedman By Bread Alone v. 51 Paul hastened down the narrow plank gangway between the cottages.

1948 G. L. Miner Angell's Lane xiii. 109 Mrs. Sheldon's drawing..shows the original front door opening on the gangway between the houses.

2009 C. Blevins Tory Widow 48 She pondered the dark access between the tenements when a lone peddler emerged from the same gangway.

1788 J. May Jrnl. 6 Aug. (1873) (modernized text) 99 Near this place was cut..a vista through the forests..forty feet wide..making a magnificent gangway.

1802 Spencer in Naval Chron. 7 81 We got a gangway made among the ship's company for the Admiral to walk forward.

1884 ‘Town Mouse’ Among Clods xvii. 146 With much labour we presently cleared a gangway through the carcases, and made a cautious sally.

1901 Our Naval Apprentice (U.S.) July 3 Did ye ever go to a circus with tree hundred ‘prentices’ wid a gov'ment band clearing a gangway for yous in the street?

1948 W. R. Philipson Birds of Valley iii. 44 The teal flew up to clear a gangway for them, and the mallard stalked self-consciously to one side.

1986 J. Donnelly & E. Brook Windhorse iii. 41 Julie emerged from a steaming bathroom and tripped over the baby-carrier, jolting me out of my reminiscences to clear a gangway through our piles of baggage.

1688 London Gaz. No. 2317/1 Our Commander, being..forward by the Gang-Way giving his Orders, the Gun split and struck him down.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. iii. 30 Some endeavoured to escape along the gangways into the forecastle.

1797 Ld. Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 42 I passed..on the larboard gang-way, to the forecastle.

1815 W. Burney Falconer's Dict. Marine Waist-cloths, coverings of canvas or tarpauling for the hammocks, which are stowed on the gang-ways, between the quarter-deck and fore-castle.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vi. 165 A fighting gangway along the sides.

1933 Mariner's Mirror 19 336/1 She is a 'double-banked frigate'; that is to say she has guns on her gangways as well as on the forecastle and quarterdeck.

1987 B. Lavery Arming & Fitting Eng. Ships of War vi. xlvi. 249/1 The gangways had handrails on each side, to make the route safer.

1999 P. O'Brian Blue at Mizzen ii. 41 On seeing their Captain, the officers cast a guilty look aft and sidled forward along the starboard gangway.

1700 True Relation of Conspiracy Ship Adventure 4 These very Men themselves..did seise the same Edward Ham to the Gang-way, and severely beat him for the same Crime.

1719 Younger Brother v. iii. 64 Let the Rogue be brought to a Gang-way.

1791 J. O'Keeffe Wild Oats ii. 33 If I had you at the gangway, I'd give you a neater dozen than ever you got from your school-master's cat-o-nine-tails.

1830 London & Paris Observer 24 Oct. 688/1 Powel was brought to the gangway, and there received lashes.

1837 M. H. Barker in Bentley's Misc. May 476 Tell us how Suke saved you from the gangway.

1893 W. C. Russell Romance of Transport 139 ‘I could have him brought to the gangway for this,’ said the doctor.

1978 P. O'Brian Desolation Island iii. 63 He would be started and cobbed by the bosun's mates, might even be brought to the gangway and flogged, and he would never get along kindly with his messmates.

2003 J. Stockwin Mutiny (2004) 279 Three sailors deserting from Lion were brought to the gangway. The committee decided on two dozen lashes to be applied immediately.

1867 L. Stephen in Cornhill Mag. Sept. 539 The corpulent elder, who rowed when boats had gangways down their middle.

1702 L'Estrange's Visions of Quevedo Burlesqu'd 102 To thrust thro' Doors, or some Gang-way.

1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. xiii. 319 Gangway. Interval or space left for passage through the middle of the curing-house.

1877 J. C. Cox Notes on Churches of Derbyshire III. 239 The monument..used to be in the gang~way of the nave.

1891 Times 10 Oct. 11/2 The plan of filling up the gangways with stools cannot be commended.

1933 H. Nicolson Diary 27 Jan. in Diaries & Lett. (2004) ii. 98 The desks for the senators are arranged in a rough semicircle with a gangway down the middle.

1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IV. 343/2 The traditional plan of a side corridor connecting separate compartments has given place, on many main-line British trains, to open coaches with a central gangway.

1960 G. Ashe Crime-haters iii. 30 Dawlish stood up, lowered his head, and walked along the gangway. Only the pilot was left on board.

1994 G. Trease Bring out Banners (1995) vii. 49 The long draped skirt would swish importantly down a theatre gangway.

2001 SAPA Newswire (Nexis) 18 July As he went up the gangway between the seats it became congested with people.

1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis Gloss. 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.

1824 J. Mander Derbyshire Miners' Gloss. Gangway is the horizontal passage made in the Mine, along which the Bouse is conveyed to the tail end of the shaft.

1888 S. W. Hall Coal & Coke xi. 38 The principal opening of those within the mine, and the one first made, after the shaft or slope has been carried far enough, is the gangway.

1901 Rep. Industr. Comm. Mining Industry XII. 143 For driving what we term in the anthracite region the gangway, or what is known in bituminous coal mining as an entry, they receive $4.22 per yard.

1960 G. G. Korson Black Rock xx. 382 That first explosion seems to have taken place in the gangway near the mouth of the rock tunnel.

2004 K. J. Patrick Pennsylvania Caves 213 The tunnel intersects with parallel gangways that were driven west through the coal veins.

1790 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Midland Counties I. iii. 32 The modern cowshed..is built on an expensive plan; being furnished..with a gangway before the heads of the cattle, and mangers for dry meat.

1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 100 The beast-house contains standing for sixteen head of cattle, eight on each side of the gang-way.

1877 Farmer's Mag. June 412/1 Skim milk..is run down by a pipe into tanks in the piggery—a long shed with a gang-way up the centre, where pigs of different ages were being fed on boards.

1910 P. McConnell Farm Equipm. ii. 13 The gangway is exceptionally wide—as it must be in single sheds.

2000 A. Kelland tr. G. Mak Jorwerd xii. 260 Tractors with feed drove slowly along the gangway of the loosebox cowshed.

1818 J. Adolphus Polit. State Brit. Empire I. 253 The following modes of conduct have been declared..to be disorderly... Walking up and down the house, standing on the floor, in the gangways, or in the gallery.

1831 Ld. Broughton Recoll. Long Life (1910) IV. 117 Being at prayers, however, I did get a seat on the right, below the gangway, amongst the Irish Members.

1866 Q. Rev. July 141/2 From above the gangway, from the immediate supporters of the Government, Mr. Gladstone's most fervid eloquence could rarely elicit any expression of sympathy.

1886 Manch. Examiner 14 Jan. 5/6 Members unable to obtain places were inconveniently crowded about the gangways.

1919 F. A. Ogg & C. A. Beard National Govts. & World War ii. xiii. 249 Members of more independent attitude seek places below the gangway.

1971 New Scientist 5 Aug. 329/1 This alerted the watchful, moustached figure who occupies the first seat..below the gangway.

2010 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 22 May 26 The rest of the Liberal Democrats took up their places on the Government side of the House below the gangway.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. App. 42 The town wall is but three feet and a half in thickness, and has a wooden gang-way round it on the inside.

1794 W. Hutchinson Hist. Durham III. 280 The traveller..sees himself suspended over a roaring gulph, on an agitated, restless gang-way.

1814 Gen. Rep. Agric. State & Polit. Circumstances Scotl. I. 139 The only communication to the granary should be from this floor, which is easily done by a gangway over the void of the lower floor of the barn.

1899 Sc. Law Rev. & Sheriff Court Rep. 15 ii. 320 He at once proceeded to the back part of the building, and in doing so he had to walk along a gangway or plank situated 12 or 14 feet above the ground below.

1905 G. Le Strange Lands Eastern Caliphate xiv. 204 A wall said to be three and a half leagues in circuit, with battlements and a gangway running along the summit.

2002 F. Buckland Impossible Dance ii. 59 I stood on a gangway above the dance floor at seven a.m. pondering whether to leave.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 585 Gangway; in building, the temporary rough stair, set up for ascending or descending, before the regular stair is built.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Gangway is also that part of a ship's side, both within and without, by which the passengers enter and depart.

1836 F. Trollope Life & Adventures Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw I. ii. 33 The bold boy,..marking the moment when the open gangway approached, sprang upwards, seized its railing, and in an instant stood unharmed aboard the boat.

1868 Harper's Mag. Oct. 580/1 Guards were stationed at the gangways of the Continental, and express orders given to prevent any person from boarding.

1903 R. Leighton Kidnapping of Peter Cray xvii. 163 He stopped abruptly, and directed his lantern-light towards the open gangway. ‘Hold hard!’ he cried excitedly, ‘that boy can't come aboard’.

1973 R. B. Wright In Middle of Life 234 A merciless caldron of fire, pouring light and heat upon him as he stepped from the gangway of the aircraft into this California glare.

1977 K. E. Woodiwiss Shanna xxiv. 557 No sooner was the gangway opened and the plank lowered than Ruark came leaping aboard.

2006 P. Krebs Operation Sleeping Dragon xi. 123 A stairway was quickly placed at the gangway of the aircraft as the hatch was opened.

1846 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xi. 105 The carts..would have done for gangways at steam-boat piers.

1877 W. Black Green Pastures xxvii Then we climbed up the gangway and reached the deck of the noble and stately ship.

1919 Boys' Life Dec. 12/1 The last air passengers hurried up the gangway. Already the crew of the great transatlantic air liner was at its station.

1947 Flying Aug. 84/2 I stood in line with a few others, walked up the little gangway to the platform next to the cockpit, and peered in.

1976 K. Amis Alteration v. 181 When his turn came he climbed the gangway and, once past the rail, was possessed by a new sensation, a joyful relief at being home again.

1989 J. Lingard Tug of War iii. 37 They were told they could board the ships. People flocked to the gangways, carrying bundles and babies in their arms.

2001 J. Hickey in M. Hickey Irish Days (2004) 123 He went up the gangway into the 'plane.