slipway
(in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
a ramp on a factory ship for hauling aboard carcasses of whales for processing.
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How to use slipway in a sentence
Then she drew him away, over stock and stone, in a slanting path to the slipway, where the people stood like a wall.
Pelle the Conqueror, Complete | Martin Anderson NexoA motor-boat left the slipway, and we were towed ingloriously ashore at about 11 o'clock.
'Green Balls' | Paul BewsherAt ten minutes to seven we sighted land and twenty minutes after we were resting on the water in front of Yarmouth slipway.
The Victory At Sea | William Sowden SimsMaster Calvin, seated astride the low wall above the slipway, almost rolled off his perch with laughter.
Shining Ferry | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-CouchRosewarne could not challenge him without raising the whole question of the slipway.
Shining Ferry | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British Dictionary definitions for slipway
/ (ˈslɪpˌweɪ) /
the sloping area in a shipyard, containing the ways
Also called: marine railway the ways on which a vessel is launched
the ramp of a whaling factory ship
a pillowcase; pillowslip
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