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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Wiktionary

  1. n. nautical A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside

Etymologies

  1. From gang (“way, path, course of travel”) +‎ plank (“board”) (Wiktionary)
  2. From gang1, way (obsolete and dialectal). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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