单词 | gangplank |
释义 | gangplankn. A plank, often with cleats fixed at intervals along it, used as a temporary ramp or walkway to enable people to board or disembark from a ship or boat. Cf. gangboard n. 2, gangway n. 5b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > ladder or gang-plank ship-ladderc1050 fall-bridge1487 way-shide1535 gallery ladder1706 side ladder1724 gangboard1769 gangway ladder1778 gangplank1785 stern-ladder1794 race board1808 gangway1846 brow1867 boarding-bridge1878 passerelle1989 1785 Morning Chron. 4 Mar. (advt.) Gang planks, pulley step, and other ladders, [etc]. 1846 Knickerbocker 27 469 The last bell rang; the gangplank was drawn in-board; the hawsers were cast off. 1887 Times 29 Aug. 4/5 The moment the gang-planks are fixed a crowd of stevedores rush aboard. 1908 E. Higginson Alaska xlv. 486 A gang-plank was floated ashore, and a customs inspector came abroad. 1939 N.Y. Times 14 July 12/3 She stood by the rail an hour or more and then staggered down the gangplank. 1965 S. Afr. Surfer 1 38 Australian surfers..come bounding down the gangplank like kangaroos with boards under their arms. 1989 W. Dalrymple In Xanadu ii. 29 The gangplanks were already clogged with excited Arabs jostling to be the first ashore. 2004 A. Greig In Another Light (2005) 127 Streams of thin adult coolies and stevedores carrying luggage down the gangplank. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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