Crossword clues for gangway
gangway
- A temporary passageway of planks (as over mud on a building site)
- A temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside
- Passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores
- Pier-to-packet passage
- Criminal group with course of action on which to embark
- Passage from Burns' Go With Style
- Raised platform
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gangway \Gang"way`\, n. [See Gang, v. i.]
A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.
In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.
(Naut.) The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.
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(Naut.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist.
--Totten.Gangway ladder, a ladder rigged on the side of a vessel at the gangway.
To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"temporary passageway" to a ship, building under construction, etc., ultimately from Old English gangweg "road, passage, thoroughfare;" a compound of gang (n.) in its original sense "a going, journey, way, passage" and way (n.). Nautical use dates from 1680s in reference to a passage on the ship, from 1780 of the opening at the side whereby people enter and leave, and by 1840s of the board or bridge they use to get to and from the dock. As a command to clear way, attested by 1912, American English.
Wiktionary
interj. (context to a crowd English) make way! clear a path! n. 1 A passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings. 2 An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship. 3 A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks. 4 (context rare obsolete outside dialects English) A clear path through a crowd or a passageway with people. 5 (context British English) An aisle. 6 (context nautical English) A passage along either side of a ship's upper deck. 7 (context nautical English) A passage through the side of a ship or though a railing through which the ship may be boarded. 8 (context agricultural English) An earthen and plank ramp leading from the stable yard into the upper storey or mow of a dairy barn.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Gangway was a Danish band, active from 1982 to 1998. Gangway consisted of Allan Jensen (lead singer), Henrik Balling (guitar), Torben Johansen (of Escape Artists, keyboards), and four different drummers, Jan Christensen (1982–84), Gorm Ravn-Jonsen (1984–89), Cai Bojsen-Møller (1991–94), and Jeppe Moesgaard (1996–98).
Their first three albums had a Beatles (and sometimes Smiths-esque) guitar pop sound, with a distinct new wave twist, but later on, particularly on The Quiet Boy Ate The Whole Cake, their influences were more on synthpop, such as that of the Pet Shop Boys. They are also known for their strange and subtle lyrics that are often on the verge of surrealism.
Their most well-known song, "My Girl and Me", was a big hit in Denmark and was also played on MTV. It received regular airplay on the modern rock radio station KITS in San Francisco.
The band broke up in 1998, but on 21 October 2006, guitarist/songwriter Henrik Balling and lead singer Allan Jensen finally staged an exclusive reunion show for just 125 people at a small bar in Copenhagen. Torben Johansen was present in the audience.
Gangway is an international online literary magazine, bridging Austria and Australia. Its founder and editor in chief is Gerald Ganglbauer, the first issue was launched in June 1996 in Sydney.
Gangway is a 1937 British musical film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Nat Pendleton and Alastair Sim. Its plot involves a young reporter goes undercover to unmask a gang of criminals who are planning a jewel heist. AKA as Sparkles in Australia and on Australian release 78rpm records. Jessie Matthews was nicknamed SPARKLE in the film.
Gangway may refer to:
- Gangway (band), a Danish band
- Gangway (film), a British musical film
- Gangway (magazine), a literary magazine
- Gangway (nautical), a passage between the quarterdeck and the forecastle of a ship
- The Gangway connection between railway passenger cars
- Gangway for Tomorrow, an American anthology
A gangway is a narrow passage that joins the quarterdeck to the forecastle of a sailing ship. The term is also extended to mean the narrow passages used to board or disembark ships.
Modern shipping uses gangways to embark and disembark passengers. Twentieth century extendible gangways used in the Overseas Passenger Terminal in Sydney, Australia are now on the State's heritage list.
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.