A large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline.
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Examples for "drydock"
Examples for "drydock"
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Then more and more, and soon he had his own drydock.
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Can't fix those ducts properly without putting the ship in a full drydock.
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They are constantly kept in repair each winter when laid up in drydock.
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The captain promised to take a message to the drydock.
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His pal was on an aircraft carrier that was in drydock getting a new scientific deck.
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In November 1800 the new graving dock, near the bridge, was opened for the reception of vessels.
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Include medium-heavy dismounting tools, below the graving dock size, but heavy enough to handle any job less drastic.
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History was marked at Dublin Port on Monday when tall ship Jeanie Johnston floated out of its graving dock.
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Seaton carried this intelligence directly to Lloyds' agent; he overhauled the ship, and ordered her into the graving dock for repairs.
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He reclaimed some land from the sea, and made a shipyard and graving dock on what was known as Corporation Ground.
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In 1961 it was raised, refloated and moved to a dry dock.
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His mouth opened and closed like a fish on a dry dock.
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The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock.
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We won't build the dry dock until we've taken the ship.
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He told me he would send her into dry dock to-day.
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But it was returned to dry dock immediately after its first voyage to sea.
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The clock has been in dry dock since the Liffey Swim 10 days ago.
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On Thursday morning, they successfully forced the Fennica to return to a dry dock.
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The carrier was immediately placed within the same dry dock it was built in.
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Another NITC tanker, Alert, is currently in a dry dock in Oman for repairs.
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Blast put a tug in dry dock for seventeen weeks.
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It's a mother ship for submarines-sortof floatin' dry dock for the little sneakers.
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It was estimated a new dry dock in Picton could create more than 100 jobs.
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When the end was coming, they must have put hundreds of ships into dry dock.
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The engineers then proceeded to inspect the Scotia, which had been put in dry dock.
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The Fram had been in dry dock, where the hull was thoroughly coated with composition.
