Word: skidway
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...around like a teenager, wondering miserably how to get girls. He married again, with great love and luck, lived on a boat for five years, beat down alcoholism, watched his children grow, and went on honorably writing books that are not, now, much read. His years have been a skidway, but he has man aged to observe the slide well. John Skow
...with His Head. Drawn up the gaping skidway by steel cables thrumming on giant steam-driven winches, the whale reached the broad afterdeck. A gang of workmen, wielding long-handled flensing knives, sliced off the thick blubber in foot-wide strips. The winches whined again and dragged the naked, bloody carcass 50 ft. farther along the slimy, slippery, half-iced deck to stage two. Here another flensing gang sliced off the meat. A neat, well-directed blow, as from an executioner's ax, severed the backbone at the neck, and the gigantic head (20 ft. long in an average...
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