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Ship railway

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's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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