A slope on which a ship is built and down which it slides to be launched.
造船台，下水台
Example sentencesExamples
Just prior to World War I, the company started constructing four additional open shipways and affiliated shops to the south of the original facilities.
Around 8,000 people had travelled to the shipway on the Southside of Glasgow for the original planned launch of the ship on Friday April 8.
Facilities at the main plant include a 750-foot drydock, three shipways, three wharves, an outfitting pier, four level-luffing cranes, and covered facilities for pre-outfit and assembly.
The completed ships could easily slip into the water along the inclined shipways.
The web of pathways, highways, shipways and skyways has been growing ever since.
Rhymes
slipway
Definition of shipway in US English:
shipway
nounˈSHipˌwāˈʃɪpˌweɪ
A slope on which a ship is built and down which it slides to be launched.
造船台，下水台
Example sentencesExamples
Facilities at the main plant include a 750-foot drydock, three shipways, three wharves, an outfitting pier, four level-luffing cranes, and covered facilities for pre-outfit and assembly.
Just prior to World War I, the company started constructing four additional open shipways and affiliated shops to the south of the original facilities.
The completed ships could easily slip into the water along the inclined shipways.
Around 8,000 people had travelled to the shipway on the Southside of Glasgow for the original planned launch of the ship on Friday April 8.
The web of pathways, highways, shipways and skyways has been growing ever since.