"gang-plank" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi",
          "text": "If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: “James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please”; but put the mate in his place, and he would roar out: “Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! Lively, now! What're you about!...\"",
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          "ref": "1894, Thomas G. Allen, Across Asia on a Bicycle, page 1",
          "text": "Amid the rabble of Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Italians we trundled our bicycles across the gang-plank, which for us was the threshold of Asia, the beginning of an inland journey of seven thousand miles from the Bosporus to the Pacific.",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Robin Hyde, Passport to Hell, page 29",
          "text": "In a yellow morning the Kittawa docked at Lyttelton, and before the gang-plank was down Starkie was off the ship, swinging himself monkey-like along a rope.",
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          "ref": "1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi",
          "text": "If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: “James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please”; but put the mate in his place, and he would roar out: “Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! Lively, now! What're you about!...\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "1894, Thomas G. Allen, Across Asia on a Bicycle, page 1",
          "text": "Amid the rabble of Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Italians we trundled our bicycles across the gang-plank, which for us was the threshold of Asia, the beginning of an inland journey of seven thousand miles from the Bosporus to the Pacific.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2015, Robin Hyde, Passport to Hell, page 29",
          "text": "In a yellow morning the Kittawa docked at Lyttelton, and before the gang-plank was down Starkie was off the ship, swinging himself monkey-like along a rope.",
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