gangway
/ˈɡæŋˌweɪ/
interjection
- Used as a command to clear a path or make way.
- The stage manager yelled, "Gangway!" to move the crowd aside.
- "Gangway, please!" the paramedic called as she rushed through the hallway.
- "Gangway!" shouted the sailor as he carried the heavy crate.
noun
- A narrow, movable bridge or platform used for boarding or leaving a ship or aircraft.
- A crew member stood at the gangway to help people off the ferry.
- The passengers walked carefully down the gangway to the dock.
- The pilot exited the plane via the front gangway.
- A passage or walkway between rows of seats, as in a theater, train, or bus.
- Please move your bag out of the gangway so others can pass.
- He stood in the gangway of the train, waiting for his stop.
- The usher led us down the gangway to our seats in the theater.
- A temporary passageway, often made of planks, used at construction sites or events.
- They used a metal gangway to cross the trench at the construction site.
- Workers laid a wooden gangway over the muddy ground.
- The festival set up a raised gangway to keep visitors out of the wet grass.
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