"slipway" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: slipways [plural]
Etymology: slip + way. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|slip|way}} slip + way Head templates: {{en-noun}} slipway (plural slipways)
  1. (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. Categories (topical): Nautical Synonyms: building-slip Translations (sloping surface): قَزَق (ʔazaʔ) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), նավարան (navaran) (Armenian), ստապել (stapel) (Armenian), хелинг (heling) [masculine] (Bulgarian), стапел (stapel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), stapel [masculine] (Dutch), veneenlaskupaikka (Finnish), veneluiska (Finnish), veneramppi (Finnish), cale [feminine] (French), cale sèche [feminine] (French), Helling [feminine] (German), Stapel [masculine] (German), Helge [masculine] (German), Helgen [masculine] (German), sólya (Hungarian), sólyapálya (Hungarian), galangan (Indonesian), diga [feminine] (Italian), galangan (Malay), stāpel [masculine] (Middle Low German), montée [feminine] (Norman), pochylnia [feminine] (Polish), dique [masculine] (Portuguese), rampa de lançamento [feminine] (Portuguese), cală [feminine] (Romanian), ста́пель (stápelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), э́ллинг (élling) [masculine] (Russian), на́воз [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), návoz [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), dique [masculine] (Spanish), grada [feminine] (Spanish), sjösättningsramp [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-slipway-en-noun-1vO8rDq1 Topics: nautical, transport Disambiguation of 'sloping surface': 88 12
  2. A slip road.
    Sense id: en-slipway-en-noun-RzMlWyFo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84

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