Definition of "gangway" []

• Nautical A passage along either side of a ship's upper deck. (noun)
• Nautical See gangplank. (noun)
• Nautical An opening in the bulwark of a ship through which passengers may board. (noun)
• A narrow passageway, as of boards laid on the ground. (noun)
• The main level of a mine. (noun)

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• "I therefore kept the felucca away until I found that she was rather more than holding her own in the race, when I once more lashed the tiller, and, calling to Dominguez to look out for the things that I was about to launch overboard, ran to the gangway, and first successfully set the wash-deck tub afloat, then rolled the breaker of water out through the open _gangway_, and finally sent the mast and sail adrift; after which I returned to the tiller and watched the process of picking up the several articles, as I gradually brought the felucca to her former course, close-hauled upon the starboard tack."
• "At the end of the gangway is a platform and next to that the patrol boat bobs in the three-foot chop."
• "The gangway was a mass of shoulders and hats and blanket rolls."