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View synonyms for graving dock

graving dock

noun

, Nautical.
  1. an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.


graving dock

noun

  1. another term for dry dock
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of graving dock1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

It begins at night, with the boat being towed in under spotlights to a “graving dock,” from which water is then pumped out.

Through that window he could watch his Western Star graving in the graving dock.

New ships - including the Malaspina and other mainline Alaska ferries - were first built in a graving dock, a pit dug in the earth with doors at one end that opened to the ocean.

To the south of the town are the Alameda parade and gardens, a lunatic asylum, the dockyard, graving docks and the naval and military hospitals.

The largest ships can enter the harbour, which has a minimum depth of 30 ft.; it has two dry docks, a graving dock and a floating dry dock.

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