gangplank
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When the 380-foot steamship Great Republic—one of the world’s largest passenger vessels at the time—arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong, 1,300 blue-coated Chinese laborers filed down its gangplank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Jack said he watched me until my feet disappeared over the gangplank …
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Up the wooden gangplank in a single-file line, nearly an entire Indigenous village squeezed onto the Aquidaban’s front deck.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
They got him to sick bay early that evening, she said, and soon after wheeled him down the gangplank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
With money from a part-time job in Brooksville, he bought materials for landscaping and for constructing a fish pond across from the gangplank.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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