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"
1Then more and more, and soon he had his own drydock.
2Can't fix those ducts properly without putting the ship in a full drydock.
3They are constantly kept in repair each winter when laid up in drydock.
4The captain promised to take a message to the drydock.
5His pal was on an aircraft carrier that was in drydock getting a new scientific deck.
1In 1961 it was raised, refloated and moved to a dry dock.
2His mouth opened and closed like a fish on a dry dock.
3The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock.
4We won't build the dry dock until we've taken the ship.
5He told me he would send her into dry dock to-day.
1In November 1800 the new graving dock, near the bridge, was opened for the reception of vessels.
2Include medium-heavy dismounting tools, below the graving dock size, but heavy enough to handle any job less drastic.
3History was marked at Dublin Port on Monday when tall ship Jeanie Johnston floated out of its graving dock.
4Seaton carried this intelligence directly to Lloyds' agent; he overhauled the ship, and ordered her into the graving dock for repairs.
5He reclaimed some land from the sea, and made a shipyard and graving dock on what was known as Corporation Ground.
6The keel was laid in traditional fashion but the ship was then constructed from prefabricated sections welded together in the graving dock.
7Floating docks were added, as well as graving docks for large vessels.
8Graving Dock at Levi, first stone laid; dimensions of.
9Incidentally, the graving docks around here are a mess.
10The Thompson Graving Dock was the last place Titanic rested on dry land and it is virtually unchanged since 1911.
Translations for graving dock