The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graving \Grav"ing\, n. [From Grave to clean.] The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.
Graving dock. (Naut.) See under Dock.
Dock \Dock\, n. [Akin to D. dok; of uncertain origin; cf. LL. doga ditch, L. doga ditch, L. doga sort of vessel, Gr. ? receptacle, fr. ? to receive.]
An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.
The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.
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The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.
Balance dock, a kind of floating dock which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers.
Dry dock, a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls and floor, often of masonry and communicating with deep water, but having appliances for excluding it; -- used in constructing or repairing ships. The name includes structures used for the examination, repairing, or building of vessels, as graving docks, floating docks, hydraulic docks, etc.
Floating dock, a dock which is made to become buoyant, and, by floating, to lift a vessel out of water.
Graving dock, a dock for holding a ship for graving or cleaning the bottom, etc.
Hydraulic dock, a dock in which a vessel is raised clear of the water by hydraulic presses.
Naval dock, a dock connected with which are naval stores, materials, and all conveniences for the construction and repair of ships.
Sectional dock, a form of floating dock made in separate sections or caissons.
Slip dock, a dock having a sloping floor that extends from deep water to above high-water mark, and upon which is a railway on which runs a cradle carrying the ship.
Wet dock, a dock where the water is shut in, and kept at a given level, to facilitate the loading and unloading of ships; -- also sometimes used as a place of safety; a basin.
WordNet
Usage examples of "graving dock".
One long latticework, a graving dock that looked capable of repairing fair-sized ships or building small ones.
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.