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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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GANG'WAY, n. A passage, way or avenue into or out of any inclosed place, especially a passage into or out of a ship, or from one part of a ship to another; also, a narrow platform of planks laid horizontally along the upper part of a ship's side, from the quarter deck to the forecastle.
To bring to the gangway, in the discipline of ships, is to punish a seaman by seizing him up and flogging him.
A passage or way
into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access
formed of planks.
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.
The opening through the
bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.
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. | ||||||||