ways
structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,018 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 18,024 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired also: shipway, slipway
ways in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Meantime, he was slowly initiated by the Caterpillar into Harrow ways and customs.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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The longer their education will take, the shorter should be the ways to the goal.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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So he had civilly ignored the hand which had held out several times, in several ways.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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The sisters were alike in features and in their dainty, womanly ways, but in character they were a wide contrast.
A Countess from Canada · Bessie Marchant · Chapter 1
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O Tom, but he knew a blue-jacket’s ways, And how a lieutenant may genially haze; Only a sailor sailors heartily praise.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1