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Slipway vs Shipway - What's the difference?

slipway | shipway |

As nouns the difference between slipway and shipway

is that slipway is 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 while shipway is the sloping dry dock in which a ship is build and from where it is launched.

slipway

English

Noun

(wikipedia slipway) (en 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.

    • shipway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sloping dry dock in which a ship is build and from where it is launched
  • A navigable canal