gang-plank

English

Noun

gang-plank (plural gang-planks)

1. Alternative form of gangplank
   • 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi:

     If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: “James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please”; but put the mate in his place, and he would roar out: “Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! Lively, now! What're you about!..."

   • 1894, Thomas G. Allen, Across Asia on a Bicycle, page 1:

     Amid the rabble of Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Italians we trundled our bicycles across the gang-plank, which for us was the threshold of Asia, the beginning of an inland journey of seven thousand miles from the Bosporus to the Pacific.

   • 2015, Robin Hyde, Passport to Hell, page 29:

     In a yellow morning the Kittawa docked at Lyttelton, and before the gang-plank was down Starkie was off the ship, swinging himself monkey-like along a rope.