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gangboards

gangboards is the plural of gangboard.

Meaning of gangboard

Noun

gangboard (plural gangboards)

  1. A board or plank used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside or any gap such as scaffolding.
  2. A board or plank placed within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist for lookouts to walk or stand on.
    • The brigantine's yawl under the port gangboard was put over, and three volunteers offered to row for help.2005, Edward Rowe Snow, Jeremy D'Entremont, William Quinn, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England, Applewood Books, →ISBN, page 45
  3. The boards ending the hammock-nettings at either side of the entrance from the accommodation-ladder to the deck.

Questions about gangboards

What is gangboards the plural of?
Gangboards is the plural of gangboard.

Words near gangboards in the dictionary

  1. gangbanging
  2. gangbangings
  3. gangbangs
  4. gangbo
  5. gangboard
  6. gangboards
  7. gangbos
  8. gangbuster
  9. gangbusters
  10. gangbusting
  11. Gangca

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