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To bring to the gangway

Gangway \Gang"way`\, n. [See Gang, v. i.]

  1. A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.

  2. 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.

  3. (Naut.) The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.

  4. (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.