noun
definition
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.
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Examples of slipway in a Sentence
One centering was used for the two arch rings, supported on dwarf walls which formed a slipway, along which it was moved after the first arch was built.
There is a repairing slipway accommodating vessels of Boo tons.
She is manually launched on a wheeled trolly, and then recovered using a capstan to haul her back up the slipway.
The slipway is located at the end of a long causeway set out into a bay on the south of the island.
Earnley Butterly Center is within walking distance and a boat slipway 1.5 miles.
Loading is by concrete slipway, suitable at all states of the tide.
Up to 200 people, keen to get a good view, had made their way to a temporary slipway ' bridge ' .
The existing slipway, originally part of the Greenwich Steam Ferry, will also be retained.
There is a public slipway to launch your own boats.
There is a small slipway to launch small boats.
Near the aqueduct site work is in progress to build a double slipway to permit trailed boats to be launched onto the canal.
Get permission to use a slipway from the owner or harbor master.
Other facilities, including the slipway, additional workshops and sheds, and the installation of pontoons, will be built to meet demand.
Wind was nothing to force 1 at best, but the sun was shining as we left the slipway.
Stokes Bay pier has gone with just a slipway at the end of Military Road to indicate its former position.
Up to 200 people, keen to get a good view, had made their way to a temporary slipway ' bridge '.
The slipway facilities should be completed by early November.
At the other end of the track is a slipway for boats.
In 1888 the gates of Wellington dock were widened to admit a larger type of Channel steamers; new coal stores were erected on the Northampton quay; the slipway was lengthened 40 ft., and widened for the reception of vessels up to 800 tons.