Dictionary

gangplank en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡæŋˌplæŋk/

Etymology

From gang (“way, path, course of travel”) + plank (“board”).

Meanings

1. A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside.
   • Every since the age of six Troy Belknap of New York had embarked for Europe every June on the fastest steamer of one of the most expensive lines. With his family he had descended at the dock from a large noiseless motor, had kissed his father good-bye, turned back to shake hands with the chauffeur (a particular friend), and trotted up the gang-plank behind his mother's maid, [...] 1918, Edith Wharton, chapter I, in The Marne, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 1:

Forms

Deriveds

walk the gangplank

Relateds

gangboard · gangway

Translations (32)

fi lankonki (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · mk мо́вче (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · ru схо́дня (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · pt prancha de desembarque (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · de Landungsbrücke (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · tl tulay-tulayan (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · he גמלה (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · ru трап (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · vo boedaponil (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · sh brv (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · ceb andamyo (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · he כֶּבֶשׁ (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · vo ponil (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · ka საბიჯელა (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · nl loopplank (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · sh brvina (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · de Landungssteg (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · nn landgang (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · cmn 跳板 (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · io ponto (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · cmn 踏板 (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · nb landgang (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · fr passerelle d'embarquement (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · de Steg (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · cy pompren (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · vo golaboed (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · cy pomprennau (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · tl andamyo (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · it passerella (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · da landgang (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · sv landgång (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside) · mk по́движен мост (board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside)