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Dry dock   Listen
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Dry dock  n.  (Naut.) See under Dock.






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"Dry dock" Quotes from Famous Books



... dry dock in the O. P. room, and then old Langdale insisted on my lying down for an hour or so in case any symptoms of concussion should appear. But I was only a trifle shaken and confused. Still, it was ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman

... against the outer coast line; for its waters compose one great harbor, protected by the forests and mountains. One may see "Uncle Sam's" powerful fighting machines almost any day steaming toward Bremerton, one of the U. S. Naval Stations, where the largest dry dock owned by the U. ...
— The Beauties of the State of Washington - A Book for Tourists • Harry F. Giles

... which was put in dry dock. They could scarcely believe it possible; at two yards and a half below water-mark was a regular rent, in the form of an isosceles triangle. The broken place in the iron plates was so perfectly defined that it could ...
— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne



Words linked to "Dry dock" :   dock, floating dry dock, graving dock, dockage, floating dock, docking facility



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