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slip-way|ˈslɪpweɪ|
Also slipway.
[f. slip- + way n.]
1. A sloping way leading down into the water; a slip. Also fig.
1840Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 431/1 Two flat-bottomed boats..were brought to the slipway, at the back of the mast-houses. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. i. iii. 42 Slip-ways and berthing for vessels. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 189/1 Ships are usually built on slip-ways, sloping down to the water. 1912Flight 7 Dec. 1133 (caption) The machine being launched from the slipway that leads down to the water from the hangar. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXX. 48/1 The management of these [seaplane] stations is very similar to that of an aerodrome, with the exception of slipways up and down which aircraft are moved on leaving and entering the water. 1936Sun (Baltimore) 6 July 9/1 The giant four-motored plane, prototype of the airliner with which Britain is to face the Atlantic voyage, made its first appearance on the slipway at Rochester this week. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock i. iii. 46 The coffin slid smoothly down into the fiery sea... The clergyman smiled gently from behind the slipway. 1982P. Connon In Shadow of Eagle's Wing 28 On the evening of Wednesday, August 3, the hydromonoplane was launched down the slipway into Bowness Bay.
2. An inclined roadway leading into a mine.
1863Cambrian Jrnl. 151 The Austrian mines have circular slip-ways, viz., without steps, of an inclined plane, winding round a newel. |