Gangway

A gangway is a safely accessible structural connection between two spatially separated locations.

In general, this is a very simple construction such as narrow, wooden trestle bridges for pedestrians over a body of water or a simple access road for driving up carts on scaffolding to transport the building materials.

On a ship , the footbridge connecting the superstructure and the bridge over a low-lying plain deck of time. She has railings here. In this way, the crew can reach the superstructure even in heavy seas without being carried away by breakers .

Individual evidence

↑ Adelung: Laufbrücke, die . In: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect . tape 2 . Leipzig 1796, p. 1933 ( zeno.org [accessed January 22, 2013]).
↑ gangway . In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon . tape 10 . Altenburg 1860, p. 160 ( zeno.org [accessed January 22, 2013]).
^ Otto Lueger: gangway . In: Lexicon of all technology and its auxiliary sciences . tape 6 . Stuttgart, Leipzig 1908, p. 76 ( zeno.org [accessed January 22, 2013]).

[1] Adelung: Laufbrücke, die . In: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect . tape 2 . Leipzig 1796, p. 1933 ( zeno.org [accessed January 22, 2013]).

[2] way . In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon . tape 10 . Altenburg 1860, p. 160 ( zeno.org [accessed January 22, 2013]).

[3] Otto Lueger: gangway . In: Lexicon of all technology and its auxiliary sciences . tape 6 . Stuttgart, Leipzig 1908, p. 76 ( zeno.org [accessed January 22, 2013]).