gangway

lankonki, maihinnousuportti, laivasilta

kulkusilta

käytävä A passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings.
An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship.
A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks.
puhekieltä A clear path through a crowd or a passageway with people.
puhekieltä An aisle.
puhekieltä A passage along either side of a ship's upper deck.
puhekieltä A passage through the side of a ship or though a railing through which the ship may be boarded.
puhekieltä An earthen and plank ramp leading from the stable yard into the upper storey or mow of a dairy barn.
To serve as, furnish with, or conduct oneself as though proceeding on a gangway.
2004, Bill Hillsman, Run the Other Way:

He gangwayed his way through the crowd, and just as the clock struck midnight, he was standing in front of NBC's camera on national TV as the governor-elect of Minnesota and the first Reform Party candidate ever to be elected to high office.

They're conducting phone conversations without speaking into the wrong end of their mobiles, or gangwaying to the Gents without tripping over, or turning the pages of a newspaper without blacking adjacent eyes.

Here also of exceptional value were the half-dozen dueling codes published after 1880, gangwaying a detailed analysis in chapter II of the manner in which duels unfolded, and dozens of French sources which formed the core of a chapter on the French duel.

And he pushed his way through the crowd crying, "Gangway, gangway!" and dragging Jane and Michael after him.