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Graving

Grave \Grave\, v. t. [imp. Graved (gr[=a]vd); p. p. Graven (gr[=a]v"'n) or Graved; p. pr. & vb. n. Graving.] [AS. grafan to dig, grave, engrave; akin to OFries. greva, D. graven, G. graben, OHG. & Goth. graban, Dan. grabe, Sw. gr[aum]fva, Icel. grafa, but prob. not to Gr. gra`fein to write, E. graphic. Cf. Grave, n., Grove, n.]

  1. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.

    He hath graven and digged up a pit.
    --Ps. vii. 16 (Book of Common Prayer).

  2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

    Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
    --Ex. xxviii. 9.

  3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.

    With gold men may the hearte grave.
    --Chaucer.

  4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

    O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
    --Prior.

  5. To entomb; to bury. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

    Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
    --Shak.

Graving

Graving \Grav"ing\, n. [From Grave to clean.] The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.

Graving dock. (Naut.) See under Dock.

Graving

Graving \Grav"ing\, n. [From Grave to dig.]

  1. The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, especially by incision or in intaglio.

  2. That which is graved or carved. [R.]

    Skillful to . . . grave any manner of graving.
    --2 Chron. ii. 14.

  3. Impression, as upon the mind or heart.

    New gravings upon their souls.
    --Eikon Basilike

Wiktionary
graving

n. 1 The act of cleaning a ship's bottom. 2 (context obsolete English) An engraving. vb. (present participle of grave English)

WordNet

Usage examples of "graving".

There are two graving docks for repairs, but to get the ships fully mission-capable will require months.

Trucks were lined up on the perimeter of the graving dock, and with them hundreds of sailors and civilian yard employees, like doctors or EMTs, Bud imagined, ready to switch out body parts.

Tyrel and Reisa complained at his insistence on deepening the harbor more beyond the graving ways, but they had done so.

One long latticework, a graving dock that looked capable of repairing fair-sized ships or building small ones.

The drab hostels gave way to chandlers' offices, advertising electronics, software, graving docks, power systems.

Designed for durability, you might have to put the ship into a graving dock stationside and strip her to the hull to get them all.

We couldn't take anything else but a new spindizzy, and that's a job for a graving dock.

Here in the graving dock she was clamped bow and stern by collars like the chucks of a gigantic lathe.

One of his armored cruisers was in the graving dock, with a cracked shaft on her central screw.

The photos had been taken from a low-oblique angle, probably from the rim of the graving dock that had held the boat during her post-shakedown refit.

At the graving dock nearby, polishing heads howled and paused, then howled again as they cleaned the hull of a freighter.

Dubinin watched the water invade the graving dock as the sluices were opened.

Soon it was joined by another, then more still, until a total of eleven cameras were pointing at the covered graving dock, now empty with the demise of most of America's missile submarines, and also empty of another which had briefly lived there, not American, or so the story went.

A troop-transport must be loading with refugees from the emergency bubbles, and a human-built self-propelled graving dock had been brought for heavy repair work.

Kirk was forced to order a nonscheduled lay-over for repairs at Star Base 11, a huge complex serving the dual role of graving dock and galactic command outpost.