slipway

slipway
/slip"way'/, n. Naut.
1. (in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
3. a ramp on a factory ship for hauling aboard carcasses of whales for processing.
[1830-40; SLIP1 + WAY1]

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