slipway

IPA: sɫˈɪpweɪ

noun

  • (nautical) A sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched.
  • A slip road.
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Examples of "slipway" in Sentences

  • A concrete slipway is all that remains.
  • Roughly at the centre is a public slipway.
  • A jetty and slipway were built the following year.
  • A lifeboat house with slipway is attached to the side.
  • To the north of the slipway is a straight peeble beach.
  • A new boathouse with a roller slipway was built in 1931.
  • It was the first factory ship to be fitted with a slipway.
  • In 1870 a heavy gale destroyed the slipway to the boathouse.
  • Boatbuilding facilities and a slipway are on the creek side of the harbour.
  • We're just in the normal kind of slipway that one is in this kind of investigation.
  • The slipway was the large ramp cut into the stern of the Nisshin up which the whales were hauled.
  • Climbing back up the steps and continuing west, we find some tumbledown shacks at the top of the path leading to the slipway.
  • According to Stuart Fraser, head of the policy committee at the Corporation of London, bankers are worried about what might yet come down the slipway.
  • In Bessy's Cove we can see bricked-up caves, steep steps leading down to a tiny pebble beach, and a slipway running diagonally up the further side of the cove.
  • If, or more likely when, such ambiguities cease to sustain the grudging standoff between Greece and its northern creditors, the nation will be on a slipway out of the single currency club.
  • 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.
  • The slipway where she was launched is already more or less a national monument, as are the shipyard gantries above, and the dry dock where she was fitted out, and the building where she was planned.
  • The slipway where she was launched is already more or less a national monument, as are the shipyard gantries above, and the dry dock where the was fitted out, and the building where she was planned.

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