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Webster 1913 Edition
Gangway
1.
A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.
2.
In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.
3.
(Naut.)
The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.
4.
(Naut.)
That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; – more properly termed the waist.
Totten.
Gangway ladder
, a ladder rigged on the side of a vessel at the gangway.
– To bring to the gangway
, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gangway
GANG'WAY
,Noun.
To bring to the gangway, in the discipline of ships, is to punish a seaman by seizing him up and flogging him.
Definition 2024
gangway
gangway
English
Noun
gangway (plural gangways)
- A passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings.
- An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship.
- A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks.
- (rare, obsolete outside dialects) A clear path through a crowd or a passageway with people.
- (Britain) An aisle.
- (nautical) A passage along either side of a ship's upper deck.
- (nautical) A passage through the side of a ship or though a railing through which the ship may be boarded.
- (agricultural) An earthen and plank ramp leading from the stable yard into the upper storey or mow of a dairy barn.
Translations
passageway
temporary bridge
temporary plank bridge, path, or passageway
clear path through a crowd
aisle — see aisle
nautical: passage on upper deck
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nautical: passage through the side of a ship
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Verb
gangway (third-person singular simple present gangways, present participle gangwaying, simple past and past participle gangwayed)
- To serve as, furnish with, or conduct oneself as though proceeding on a gangway.
- 2004, Bill Hillsman, Run the Other Way:
- He gangwayed his way through the crowd, and just as the clock struck midnight, he was standing in front of NBC's camera on national TV as the governor-elect of Minnesota and the first Reform Party candidate ever to be elected to high office.
- 2014, Jude Cook, Byron Easy:
- They're conducting phone conversations without speaking into the wrong end of their mobiles, or gangwaying to the Gents without tripping over, or turning the pages of a newspaper without blacking adjacent eyes.
- 2014, Kevin McAleer, Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siecle Germany:
- Here also of exceptional value were the half-dozen dueling codes published after 1880, gangwaying a detailed analysis in chapter II of the manner in which duels unfolded, and dozens of French sources which formed the core of a chapter on the French duel.
- 2004, Bill Hillsman, Run the Other Way:
Interjection
gangway
- (to a crowd) Make way! Clear a path!
- 1934, P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins, p 157:
- And he pushed his way through the crowd crying, "Gangway, gangway!" and dragging Jane and Michael after him.
- 1934, P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins, p 157:
Translations
make way