Gangway is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GANGWAY in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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.
• The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.
• 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.
NOUN:
• either of the sides of the upper deck of a ship
• a raised platform or walkway providing a passage.
• a movable bridge linking a ship to the shore.
• an opening in the bulwarks by which a ship is entered or left.
• a passage between rows of seats, especially in a theatre or aircraft.
• 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
INTERJECTION:
• make way!
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a passageway
• same as gangplank

Words related to GANGWAY

gangboard14 gangplank17 gangways16 logway13

Words that contain GANGWAY

gangways16

How to use GANGWAY in a sentence

• An indiscriminate intimacy with all hands leads to sundry annoyances and scrapes, too often ending with a dozen at the gang-way.
• While in office, even, his life had often been secretly attempted by the seamen whom he had brought to the gangway.
• They were immediately mustered in the starboard gangway, that Mr.
• And if a midshipman bears a grudge against a sailor, how easy for him, by cunning practices, born of a boyish spite, to have him degraded at the gangway.
• Kneeling on the gangway, he perceived the dark bale disappearing in the element, with the feet of the Westphalian dragging after.
• Up the gangway trooped the men, and I noticed that two of them walked slowly and cautiously.
• The four Mongols remain on the last gangway near the treasure which the Chinese soldiers do not leave for an instant.
• A dozen officers on board her were looking at us, from her gangway, her quarter-deck guns, and rigging.
• There was extra blowing and extra ringing, shouting, commanding, rushing up the gangway and rushing down the gangway.
• He walked out behind them, through the cabin, and the crowd on deck, down the stairs, and out over the gangway.
• Those who were to take passage on the packet hurried forward, to the gangway, so occupied in their own affairs as to have small time to examine their neighbors.
• At last they drew near to the break in that interminable gangway.
• In many cases connection with the shore was made by means of a narrow bridge or gangway, constructed in the same manner.
• Then they and the other guns of the ship were loaded and brought to bear on the tent, and the gangway which connected the ship with the land was drawn on board.
• I then proceeded along starboard gangway and found a man lying face down in gangway.
• The yacht came to a standstill in a few minutes, and the gig was waiting at the foot of the gangway ladder.
• I stood on the gangway full of conflicting emotions.
• Van Stuyler, whom the President of the United States had escorted to the gangway.
• A minute later George saw Marguerite slowly crossing the gangway from the pier to the embankment.
• Some fell on the forecastle, one in the gangway, and Mr.
• A gangway was thrown, like a Chinese bridge, from one deck to the other, over the centre of the hold.
• Our guide informed us that beyond the Gangway were several rooms, among which Silent Chamber and Gothic Arch were the most noteworthy.
• More anxious than ever for news of the fight, we applied for shore leave, and, after lunch, went down the gangway, and trod the soil of Africa for the first time.
• The man with the parcel under his arm led me up the gangway.
• Colonel Ross was standing by the tiny gangway to receive them.
• They were already two minutes and a half behind time on account of waiting for a party who had been very long in crossing the gangway.
• The barge, which was a large eight-oar boat, had been made ready to lower into the water, and the gangway had been rigged out.
• Another was on the gangway when the great gun was fired, but I could not prevail on him to stay there long.
• Captain Baker then ordered the cutter to be launched, but they had scarcely got her over the gangway before she sank.

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