MEANING
A passage or movable walkway used to board a vessel or reach another structure.
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Words that belong together
- ship's gangway
- narrow gangway
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The ship's gangway shifted as the tide lifted the hull.
Word forms
- Base
- gangway
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular gangway; plural gangways. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.
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