Meaning

3 senses
  1. A board or plank used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside or any gap such as scaffolding.

    Steg, Landungssteg, Landungsbrücke

    схо́дняsxódnja, трапtrap

  2. A board or plank placed within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist for lookouts to walk or stand on.

  3. The boards ending the hammock-nettings at either side of the entrance from the accommodation-ladder to the deck.

More definitions
  • a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: gangboards
Singulargangboard
Pluralgangboards

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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