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What is a slipway?

What is a slipway? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (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.
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Penzance harbour has an excellent slipway for launching, with a large car park adjacent.
It also wants to see the slipway at Westport Quay being better utilised than at present.
For launching use the slipway at Falmouth Watersports Centre or take off from the beach at Maenporth or Porthoustock, on the Lizard.
Other suggestions included a facility for boat repair, a slipway, more car parking in the area and a small boat marina.
This one moved with startling speed to capture a shore crab that was walking across the stone wall of a slipway.
The vessel was floated by the flooding of the dry dock, rather than from a slipway.

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