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slipway

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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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FRESHLY-PAINTED WITH ITS HULL OVERHAULED, THE 240-TON Yavari recently inched down Puno's ancient slipway and back into the waters of Lake Titicaca, its home for the past 120 years.
With his wagon thus filled with the harvest of twenty years' research, its high struts flying ribbons of metaphor and symbol, Professor Lehning gets a final encouraging shove from his colleagues - some of the finest social historians in the land - and off he rattles, harvest, cart and all, down the slipway into the deep green pond of "discourse.
The site dictated a lightweight structure, for the waterfront had once been a slipway.
 
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