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slipway

1. the sloping area in a shipyard, containing the ways

2. the ways on which a vessel is launched

3. the ramp of a whaling factory ship

4. a pillowcase; pillowslip

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slipway [′slip‚wā]

(civil engineering)

The space in a shipyard where a foundation for launching ways and keel blocks exists and which is occupied by a ship while under construction.

(naval architecture)

One of the timbers over which the cradle of a marine railway travels.

A sloping passage in a whaling ship's stern, through which whales are hauled in.