SHIPWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipway mean? 

• SHIPWAY (noun)
  The noun SHIPWAY has 2 senses:

1. structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

2. a canal large enough for seagoing vessels

  Familiarity information: SHIPWAY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIPWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

shipway; slipway; ways

Hypernyms ("shipway" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Holonyms ("shipway" is a part of...):

shipyard (a workplace where ships are built or repaired)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A canal large enough for seagoing vessels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

ship canal; shipway

Hypernyms ("shipway" is a kind of...):

canal (long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation)

Instance hyponyms:

Gota Canal (a canal for small oceangoing ships to enter Lake Vanern in Sweden)

Panama Canal (a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914))

Suez Canal (a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea)