Slipway vs Wharf - What's the difference?
slipway | wharf |
(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.
A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
* Bancroft
* Tennyson
The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between slipway and wharf
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 wharf is a man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.slipway
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(wikipedia slipway) (en noun)wharf
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(wikipedia wharf)Noun
(en-noun)- Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.
- Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame.
- the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf