Definition of "slipway" []

• A sloping surface leading down to the water, on which ships are built or repaired. (noun)

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• "The slipway was the large ramp cut into the stern of the Nisshin up which the whales were hauled."
• "A kind of slipway is improvised in a moment by laying flat wooden frames on the slope in a line; and over these frames the flat - bottomed vessels are hauled up or down by means of long ropes."
• "We're just in the normal kind of slipway that one is in this kind of investigation."