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Ways.

Balks or skids for rolling up weights or for sliding them down.

Launching-ways. support the cradle of a ship, and form the track on which it descends into the water.

The great ship of Ptolemy Philopator was built on ways; Callixenus, in his “Account of Alexandria,” quoted by Athenaeus in his “Deipnosophists,” V. 37. says:—

“The vessel was launched originally from a sort of framework which they say was erected and made out of the wood of 50 ships of 5 ranks of oars”

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