gangplank

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Hicks, too, at Owen's suggestion, had adopted quieter attire Just as the gangplank was about to be pulled in the deckhands waited to permit a very feeble and bent old man to hobble aboard.

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  1. noun A board or ramp used as a removable footway between a ship and a pier. Also called gangway.

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  • The last passenger down the gangplank was a large, bent-over wo-man in full mourning leaning heavily on the arm of a steward. —  EQMM, Sep/Oct 2005
  • Liscanor went to confer with the officer who stood at the foot of the gangplank, then quickly returned. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
  • Ben asked just as the gangplank was being pulled up. —  The Chronicles Of Pern: First Fall
  • Even going up the gangplank, his stomach gave a premonitory lurch. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • Amid much shouting and blaring of native musicians, the gangplank was hauled back Whistles tooted, and the brilliantly lighted pier began slowly to recede, seeming to draw after it a stretch of oily, trash-speckled harbor water Doc Savage, accompanied by Long Tom, repaired to the radio room. —  008 - The Sargasso Ogre
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  1. From gang1, way (obsolete and dialectal).
 

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