Passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores

Usage examples of gangway.

With their muskets and rigid drill they were forced to come aboard through the gangway, a tedious and time-consuming manoeuvre accompanied by loud cursing from the impatient sailors.

Donchez stepped onto the gangway and saluted the American flag flying aft on the deck, then saluted the sentry.

He lowered himself down the two stories to the topside deck and saluted the aft flag and the topside sentry, then walked over the gangway to the pier.

A few moments later, as the crowd held its aching sides and mopped its eyes, Samson the Strong Man hauled prone, soaked, semi-conscious, fearfully hallucinating Buffo off up the gangway that led to the foyer as little children gave him one last tittering poke for luck before he vanished as from the face of the earth, while the clowns ran round and round the tiers of seats, kissing babies, distributing bonbons and laughing, laughing, laughing to hide their broken hearts.

Stafford were squatting on the gangway, splicing rigging, and they put down their fids and stood up when Sarah came along.

Ferdy was stretching his arms to balance his two hundred pounds of compact flab, teetering along the gangway like a circus elephant balancing on a tub.

The whole of the centre of the broad deck, a portion of the Winkelried which, owing to the over-hanging gangways, possessed, in common with all the similar craft of the Leman, a greater width than is usual in vessels of the same tonnage elsewhere, was so cumbered with freight as barely to leave a passage to the crew, forward and aft, by stepping among the boxes and bales that were piled much higher than their own heads.

Bligh, who stood near the gangway, now made an appeal to the leader of the mutineers, who was on the poop watching him.

A gangway was thrust out from one of the rear ports, and the rotifer rolled quietly down.

He glanced at the gangway petty officer, Engstrand, a tall broad-shouldered first-class signalman, who was leaning against the desk, enjoying the byplay with a toothy grin.

Comerford went down the steps into the thwartships gangway, and into his chartroom.

When the fans shut off, however, the dust began to thicken in the unventilated gangway and climb toward ignition temperature.

Hundreds more were scattered through the long miles of unventilated drifts and gangways that were rapidly filling with smoke.

One bright afternoon, a gig, gaily bedizened with streamers, was observed to shove off from the side of one of the French frigates, and pull directly for our gangway.

A little man in white ducks and peaked cap jumped out through the space where the door ought to have been, stood still for a couple of seconds until he got the hang of terra firma again, and then scuttled off in the direction of our gangway.