A passageway or corridor on a ship; a walkway providing access through a vessel.
From Portuguese 'gangua' or similar Romance language origins, influenced by nautical vocabulary that blended multiple European languages in maritime trade.
Ship gangways were so crucial to naval design that their width, strength, and placement became engineering challenges—a poorly designed gangwa could trap sailors during storms or make emergency evacuation nearly impossible.
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