slipway
/slip-wey/US // ˈslɪpˌweɪ //UK // (ˈslɪpˌweɪ) //
滑道,滑行道,滑梯,溜冰场
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Nautical.
- : the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
- : marine railway.
- : a ramp on a factory ship for hauling aboard carcasses of whales for processing.
Examples
Then she drew him away, over stock and stone, in a slanting path to the slipway, where the people stood like a wall.
A motor-boat left the slipway, and we were towed ingloriously ashore at about 11 o'clock.
At ten minutes to seven we sighted land and twenty minutes after we were resting on the water in front of Yarmouth slipway.
Master Calvin, seated astride the low wall above the slipway, almost rolled off his perch with laughter.
Rosewarne could not challenge him without raising the whole question of the slipway.
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