Associations to the word «Slipway»

Wiktionary

SLIPWAY, 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.

Dictionary definition

SLIPWAY, noun. Structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne