WordNet
floating dry dock
n. dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised [syn: floating dock]
Usage examples of "floating dry dock".
We were working on a repair ship--it was called a floating dry dock--for the Navy.
This is capital-NOT going to happen, but Mark leads me through the security gates and into the huge floating dry dock.
When he was gone, Billy hurried in the opposite direction, taking shelter in the shadows of the rusted steel beams of a floating dry dock.
It's partly a floating dry dock and partly a landing craft, and actually it's both.