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Meanings of dry-dock in English

Maneuver (a ship) into a drydock.

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Examples for "drydock"
Examples for "drydock"
1
Then more and more, and soon he had his own drydock.
Speaks the Nightbird
2
Can't fix those ducts properly without putting the ship in a full drydock.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
3
They are constantly kept in repair each winter when laid up in drydock.
The new yorker
4
The captain promised to take a message to the drydock.
The new yorker
5
His pal was on an aircraft carrier that was in drydock getting a new scientific deck.
The new yorker
Usage of dry-dock in English
1
We supplied that boat after she left dry-dock here, some weeks ago.
Sweetapple Cove
2
Here she was put into the dry-dock and hastily repaired.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 01 (of 15), America...
3
This canal would also have furnished an ideal fresh-water dry-dock.
The Conquest of America: A Romance of Disaster and Victory, U.S....
4
It cannot be picked up and put into a dry-dock.
The History of the Telephone
5
A dry-dock is usually constructed with gates, to admit or shut out the tide.
Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and Ships
6
You've been to the dry-dock and had your face scraped.
Writing for Vaudeville
7
Among the things destroyed by this iconoclastic fury was the valuable dry-dock in Pensacola Bay.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
8
There is no dry-dock in Cuban harbors, and it is very necessary to have one.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 48...
9
An old ship was on the dry-dock getting repaired.
The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3
10
Pacific Dawn will return to Brisbane on March 16 following its multimillion-dollar dry-dock refurbishment in Singapore.
News.com.au
11
There was a boat-house, a sort of miniature dry-dock, with a gate which closed behind us.
Sylvia's Marriage: A Novel
12
She ought to go to the dry-dock.
A List To Starboard / 1909
13
The craft, which operates on the Dublin to Holyhead route, entered dry-dock in Belfast on June 28th.
The Irish Times
14
I observed that the dry-dock we entered had a pontoon gate, floated in or out of place as desired.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition
15
We were staying on a dry-dock cruise liner because there weren't enough cribs on land to fit everyone, he said.
News.com.au
16
Daddy consoled him by telling him he could leave us there and go off to St. John's to the dry-dock.
Sweetapple Cove
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