Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as gang-board, Gang-plank is the usual word in the United States.

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Examples

  • What of the sick men in the main cabin, and of the crowded condition of the Golden Rocket, the likeliest place for the ceremony was found forward, on the lower deck, in an open space next to the rail and gang-plank and shaded by the mountain of freight with the big box on top and the sleeping dog beside it.

    Flush of Gold 2010

  • When half a dozen men started to carry him up the gang-plank, he awoke, reached for the grip, and clung to it like a drowning man.

    Trust 2010

  • Men were scurrying down the gang-plank to the shore.

    The Long Trail 2010

  • "I'll come back, dear Jees Uck, before the first snow flies," he promised her, between the last kisses at the gang-plank.

    THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

  • The gang-plank was hauled in, and the Aurora swung out from the bank.

    The Long Trail 2010

  • And so, fresh from the soft southern world, these dogs, trotting down the gang-plank and out upon the Yukon shore had but to see White

    The Enemy of His Kind 2010

  • He watched him go down the gang-plank empty-handed, with no dog at his heels, and stroll off along the wharf under the electric lights.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • When Daughtry sauntered along the main deck a few minutes later and paused for a gossip with the customs officer and a quartermaster at the head of the gang-plank, Captain Duncan little dreamed that his casual glance was resting on his steward for the last time.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • The gang-plank being on the port side, Dag Daughtry paddled around to the starboard and brought the canoe to a stop under a certain open port.

    CHAPTER 2 2010

  • Near the gang-plank, Scott was shaking hands with Matt, who was preparing to go ashore.

    The Long Trail 2010

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