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navy yard
- a government dockyard where naval ships are built, repaired, and fitted out, and naval supplies and munitions are laid up.
navy yard
- a naval shipyard, esp in the US
Word History and Origins
Origin of navy yard1
Example Sentences
“I heard a tremendous explosion, and, rushing out, saw that the public buildings, navy yard, ropewalks, &c., were on fire.”
So The Oregon Board of Health brought an infected tissue sample from the navy yard in Bremerton, Washington, to Dr. Lawrence’s lab in Portland.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers descended on the navy yard on Thursday, but they found no evidence that there had been any shooting.
Their efforts are crammed into the Giardini and the seemingly endless string of galleries that fill much of the medieval Arsenale, Venice’s former navy yard, a short distance away.
AP dispatches said Confederate ironclad vessels were blown up and the navy yard burned at Savannah.
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