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US
/ˈɡæŋˌpɫæŋk/
]
[ UK /ɡˈæŋplæŋk/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈæŋplæŋk/ ]
NOUN
- a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside
How To Use gangplank In A Sentence
- The only way in was via a gangplank. Times, Sunday Times
- The tall man with long blue-black hair leaped lightly from the deck of the riverboat… not wishing to wait on the mooring and the gangplank.
- One showed Bob and Edie coming on board and standing at the top of the gangplank. Fatal Error
- With a thump, a gangplank was lowered from the first ship, and a young man - no older than Lord Mark and Christian - appeared, sitting atop a fine warhorse.
- On deck I found the gangplank and made it to the safety of the dockside.
- Then without any further comment, he proceed up the gangplank to the ship where several other men stood around.
- When the ship arrived at Irow, a burly sailor respectfully offered his hand to assist her off the gangplank.
- Wayward sightseers who stay out late to sample one of the sociable local hostelries are greeted by three brick-built seamen as they set foot on the far end of the gangplank.
- They cannot have been hard to pick out on the gangplank. Spitfire Women of World War II
- A little later the houseboat was rubbing along the grassy bank, and the water was so deep close to shore that there was really no need of putting out the board, called the "gangplank," for any one to get off. The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat