What is "dry-dock"

Usage examples of "dry-dock".

All four galleons thundered forth four broadsides, sending red-hot shot from every gun that would bear into ships, docks, wharves, quays, warehouses, stacks of supplies, and dry-dock facilities.

One of the enormous articulated arms of the dry-dock cut off the view, curving around the flagship to grip its bulbous bow.

It would be nice to have a few rug rats around after the navy dry-docked him in a few years.

As a boy he'd helped Uncle Stacey change a fusion bottle by manpower, pulleys, and a jury-rigged shear legs because another ship was already in the small dry-dock where all Bergen and Associates' power equipment was built.