Usually means: Ramp for launching boats ashore.
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  1. slipway: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slipway: Merriam-Webster
  3. slipway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slipway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slipway: Collins English Dictionary
  6. slipway: Vocabulary.com
  7. Slipway, slipway: Wordnik
  8. slipway: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. slipway: Wiktionary
  10. slipway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slipway: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. slipway: Dictionary.com
  13. Slipway: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. slipway: Rhymezone
  15. slipway: FreeDictionary.org
  16. slipway: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. slipway: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. slipway: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slipway: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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.
noun:  A slip road.

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