gangplank

English

Etymology

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

Alternative forms

• gang-plank, gang plank

Noun

gangplank (plural gangplanks)

1. (nautical) A board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside.
   • 1918, Edith Wharton, chapter I, in The Marne, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 1:

     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, [...]

Derived terms

• walk the gangplank

Related terms

• gangboard
• gangway

Translations

board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跳板 (zh) (tiàobǎn), 踏板 (zh) (tàbǎn)

• Danish: landgang c
• Dutch: loopplank (nl)
• Finnish: lankonki
• French: passerelle d’embarquement f
• Georgian: საბიჯელა (sabiǯela)
• German: Steg (de) m, Landungssteg m, Landungsbrücke (de) m
• Ido: ponto (io)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landgang m

  Nynorsk: landgang m

• Portuguese: prancha de desembarque f
• Russian: схо́дня (ru) f (sxódnja), трап (ru) m (trap)
• Serbo-Croatian: brv (sh) m, brvina f
• Swedish: landgång (sv) c
• Volapük: golaboed, boedaponil, ponil (vo)
• Welsh: pompren f, pomprennau f pl