gangboard

English

Etymology

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

Noun

gangboard (plural gangboards)

1. (nautical) A board or plank used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside or any gap such as scaffolding.
2. (nautical) A board or plank placed within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist for lookouts to walk or stand on.
   • 2005, Edward Rowe Snow, Jeremy D'Entremont, William Quinn, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England‎^[1], Applewood Books, →ISBN, page 45:

     The brigantine's yawl under the port gangboard was put over, and three volunteers offered to row for help.

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

Related terms

• gangplank
• gangway

Translations

board used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside

• Dutch: loopplank (nl)
• Finnish: lankonki
• German: Steg (de) m, Landungssteg (de) m, Landungsbrücke (de) m
• Portuguese: prancha de desembarque f
• Russian: схо́дня (ru) f (sxódnja), трап (ru) m (trap)
• Serbo-Croatian: brv (sh) m, brvina f
• Volapük: golaboed, boedaponil, ponil (vo)

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
• “gang”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• grab and go, grab-and-go