Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gangway \Gang"way`\, n. [See {Gang}, v. i.]
   1. A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp.,
      a temporary way of access formed of planks.

   2. 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.

   3. (Naut.) The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by
      which persons enter or leave it.

   4. (Naut.) 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. --Totten.

   {Gangway ladder}, a ladder rigged on the side of a vessel at
      the gangway.

   {To bring to the gangway}, to punish (a seaman) by flogging
      him at the gangway.