gangplank
IPA: gˈæŋpɫæŋk
noun
- (nautical) A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside.
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Examples of "gangplank" in Sentences
- Actually, I don't know whether it's really called a gangplank or not.
- It is nightfall, and some 'sailors' go up the gangplank to board the ship.
- The 102nd floor was originally a landing platform with a dirigible gangplank.
- One showed Bob and Edie coming on board and standing at the top of the gangplank.
- Standing at the top of the gangplank was the man that I was being kicked off the flight for.
- I grabbed the little bag with what clothes I had managed to pack and sprinted to the gangplank, hoping she wouldn't change her mind in disgust.
- He walked down the gangplank and he pretty much walked on his own and he was then taken off on a stretcher, an eye witness told the Boston Herald.
- First down the gangplank was an Irish teenager named Annie Moore who subsequently became the poster child for the immigrant dream in a nation of immigrants.
- 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.
- It's not the turbines and it's not the foundations that are the big problems, it's the weather, said Dave Armstrong, whose company North Sea Logistics runs 22 turbine-support ships, and whose hinged gangplank is one of the winning ideas.
- They have everything in Myrtle Beach from dark and seedy rooms where older women walk a kind of gangplank through the barroom-clubs that don't even have signs out front-to elegant, softly lit marble-lined dreamscapes full of diaphanously-gowned young women.