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Boat Gangways
State of the Art Carbon Fibre Incredibly Strong and Light
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Wahoo Aluminum Gangways
Residential & commercial gangways, boardwalks, and dock ramps.
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gang⋅plank

  [gang-plangk]
–noun
a flat plank or small, movable, bridgelike structure for use by persons boarding or leaving a ship at a pier.
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Also called brow, gangway.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; gang 1 + plank
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Boat Gangways
State of the Art Carbon Fibre Incredibly Strong and Light
www.exitengineering.com
Wahoo Aluminum Gangways
Residential & commercial gangways, boardwalks, and dock ramps.
www.WahooDocks.com
gang·plank   (gāng'plāngk')   
n.  A board or ramp used as a removable footway between a ship and a pier. Also called gangway.

[From gang1, way (obsolete and dialectal).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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