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gangplank

[gang-plangk] / ˈgæŋˌplæŋk /


NOUN
gangway
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Jack said he watched me until my feet disappeared over the gangplank …

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Up the wooden gangplank in a single-file line, nearly an entire Indigenous village squeezed onto the Aquidaban’s front deck.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023

As the Canberra repatriated the PoWs to Puerto Madryn - the Welsh-speaking enclave of Argentina - in July 1982, a Navy photographer captured Irfon and Giorgio sharing a heartfelt goodbye handshake on the gangplank.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2022

They got him to sick bay early that evening, she said, and soon after wheeled him down the gangplank.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2020

We saw him through the glass, advancing up the gangplank until he’d become just a shadow.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd




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