gang plank

A form of gangplank — A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside.

Meanings

noungang plank (plural gang planks)

plural gang planks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of gangplank.

    Our ship docked first and the gang plank was secured.

    2014, Alexander Mescavage, Eunice Taylor, The Angry Man and the Weaver: Re-Imagining the Odyssey, page 168
    2 more examples

    Then it was across the narrow gang plank from Forth to Triad, steaming kits through a narrow hatch and down through the engine room and the motor room to the stokers' mess right aft.

    2011, Tim Clayton, Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines

    Then the long climb up the gang plank ended and the even more difficult one, climbing the ladders downward to their racks while outfitted in field transport packs into the bowels, of the Billy Weigel.

    2014, Frank Sousa, The Tree of Lost Dreams, page 245
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