What is "drydock"

Usage examples of "drydock".

Pleasure-boats were all in drydock at repair houses for the winter and wouldn't go into the boathouses until spring.

Summer folk worked the piers, scraped the drydocked sailing ships, and performed most of the grunt labor supporting seaborne trade, often with a cheerfulness that was inspirational to behold.

It was all he could do not to let his feet break into a run across the plank from the all-too-stable deck of the drydocked ship to the normal and proper stability of the scaffolding.

She had obviously been drydocked before leaving England, and Ramage knew that the two days spent at anchor in Barbados - plus a few days in Cork while collecting the rest of the convoy - were the only times the ship had been at rest since then.

He may have been temporarily assigned to the Trident while we were drydocked with repairs, but he was still under my command, and I know him better than anyone here.

The left side was a newly expanded careening yard and drydocking facility, and between right and left sides lay a section of some score or more of temporary floating wharves, these as crowded with ancient, battered, rotting ships as any of the other, more permanent structures.

The Paraden Company keeps their craft in space as long as it possibly can without drydocking them.

Deep recesses clearly designed for drydocking vessels notched the embankment with tall derricks standing alongside for ferrying cargo.

On one side of the lake, ramps and large drydocks stood, a shipbuilding and repair site now idle.

The pilots guided us past the empty drydocks, toward a small pier at the northern end of the lake.

But he removed his sunglasses after a moment and stared at us owlishly, then studied the drydocks south of us, the western shore of the lake, the pier.

And yet I have managed by drumming to search the timber port, with all its driftwood lurching in the bights or caught in the rushes, and, with less difficulty, the launching ways of the Schichau shipyard and the Klawitter shipyard, and the drydocks, the scrap-metal dump, the rancid coconut stores of the margarine factory, and all the hiding places that were ever known to me in those parts.

McCaulkin, at least, could reliably be counted on to get good value for what he spent from the purse, taking only the traditional five-percent kickback, and with a new load of good black oak just in, McCaulkin would soon be far more busy supervising the work in the drydocks than he would in counting his graft.

Warehouses, cranes, bridges, 3-1/2 miles of wharves, quays, locks, drydocks, rolling stock—and, unbelievably, even the all-important electrically controlled sluice gates, in full working order—had been seized.

We still don't know who they are, or who is providing them with bases and repair facilities, drydocks and that kind of thing.