(definition) by Webster 1913 Thu Feb 02 2006 at 5:39:39

Ship railway.

(a)

An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs.

(b)

A railway on which to transport vessels overland between bodies of water.

 

© Webster 1913

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