Gang-plank
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gang-plank is a noun meaning Alternative form of gangplank.
Meaning
Alternative form of gangplank.
Example Sentences
In a yellow morning the Kittawa docked at Lyttelton, and before the gang-plank was down Starkie was off the ship, swinging himself monkey-like along a rope.
Amid the rabble of Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Italians we trundled our bicycles across the gang-plank, which for us was the threshold of Asia, the beginning of an inland journey of seven thousand miles from the Bosporus to the Pacific.
If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: “James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please”; but put the mate in his place, and he would roar out: “Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! Lively, now! What're you about!..."
Word Forms
- gang-planks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gangplank, gangboard, gangway, passerelle, bridgeboard, planking.
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