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Definition of Shipway
1. Noun. Structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired.
2. Noun. A canal large enough for seagoing vessels.
Generic synonyms: Canal
Specialized synonyms: Gota Canal, Panama Canal, Suez Canal
Definition of Shipway
1. Noun. The sloping dry dock in which a ship is build and from where it is launched ¹
2. Noun. A navigable canal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shipway
1. a canal deep enough to serve ships [n -WAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipway
Literary usage of Shipway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1899)
"•fr 'J> •fr The conclusion of the shipway " Pedigree " case was reached on November
23, when, after a two-day trial at the Central Criminal Court, ..."
2. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine by Freeman Hunt (1847)
"... marked with the word " Wreck," has been placed about eighteen fathoms ENE of
a vessel sunk in the track of shipping passing through the shipway. ..."
3. England's Topographer: Or A New and Complete History of the County of Kent by William Henry Ireland (1829)
"... THE LATH OF shipway Is the next eastward from that of SCRAY, sometimes, though
corruptly, spelt Shepway, and called in Domesday ..."
4. The Registers of the Parish of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey: (1603-1787) by Wandsworth, Eng. (Parish), John Traviss Squire (1889)
"11 George, son of William Whitehead, Gardener. ,, ,, George, son of Richard
shipway, Labourer. A line deleted. Mar. ..."
5. Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica by Joseph Jackson Howard (1902)
"1669 July 4 John, son of Richard shipway, bapt. 1701 Feb. 4 John, son of John
shipway, ... 1703 May 9 Elizabeth, daughter of John shipway, bapt. 1704 Feb. ..."
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