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gang-plank en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of gangplank.
   alt of gangplank
   • If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: “James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please”; but put the mate in his place, and he would roar out: “Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! Lively, now! What're you about!..." 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi:
   • In a yellow morning the Kittawa docked at Lyttelton, and before the gang-plank was down Starkie was off the ship, swinging himself monkey-like along a rope. 2015, Robin Hyde, Passport to Hell, page 29:
   • Amid the rabble of Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Italians we trundled our bicycles across the gang-plank, which for us was the threshold of Asia, the beginning of an inland journey of seven thousand miles from the Bosporus to the Pacific. 1894, Thomas G. Allen, Across Asia on a Bicycle, page 1:

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