Gangway
a passage or means of temporary access to a place or building, consisting of an inclined plane of planks; specifically, the opening in the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons come on board or disembark; also the temporary bridge affording means of passing from the ship to the shore, or vice versa. To bring to the gangway, to punish a sailor by seizing and flogging him. In the GAP British House of Commons, a narrow passage running across the House and dividing the seats on each side into two parts. Above the gangway, that is, near the Speaker's end of the House, sit the Ministry and Opposition with their respective adherents, the former on the Speaker's right, the latter on his left.
Below the gangway sit the neutral or independent members. In mining a main level, applied chiefly to coal mines.
GANHWEI (gän-hwā'e), or AN- HWEI (än-hwā'ē), an E. inland province of China, intersected by the Yang-tse- Kiang.