Definition of Shipways

1. shipway [n] - See also: shipway

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipways

shippings
shippo
shippon
shippons
shippos
shiproom
ships
shipsful
shipshape
shipshape and Bristol fashion
shipside
shipsides
shipward
shipwards
shipway
shipways (current term)
shipwide
shipworm
shipworms
shipwreck
shipwreck survivor
shipwrecked
shipwreckee
shipwreckees
shipwrecking
shipwrecks
shipwrecky
shipwright
shipwrights
shipyard

Literary usage of Shipways

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Handbook of Practical Shipbuilding by James Douglas MacBride (1921)
"To illustrate, if the shipways are 100 feet between centers, ... For that reason it is customary wherever possible to build the shipways at right angles ..."

2. The Giant Hand: Our Mobilization and Control of Industry and Natural by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"The four yards together constructed ninety-four shipways, which in themselves gave the United States a greater annual shipbuilding capacity than that ..."

3. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and by Francis Whiting Halsey (1919)
"Of the 927 shipways of the Emergency Fleet Corporation of the Shipping Board, 810 were now listed as completed, and only 117 were to be added. ..."

4. The New Merchant Marine by Edward Nash Hurley (1920)
"On April 6, 1917, there were in the United States steel-ship yards with 162 shipways, and 24 wood-ship yards with 72 shipways, capable of constructing ships ..."

5. America's Part in the World War: A History of the Full Greatness of Our by Richard Joseph Beamish, Francis Andrew March (1919)
"... 12491,- 000 passengers were transported to and from Hog Island. The area of the shipyard was 927 acres; the area of the surface of the fifty shipways, ..."

6. America's Part in the World War: A History of the Full Greatness of Our by Richard Joseph Beamish, Francis Andrew March (1919)
"... 12491,- 000 passengers were transported to and from Hog Island. The area of the shipyard was 927 acres; the area of the surface of the fifty shipways, ..."

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