dockyard
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]dockyard (plural dockyards)
- A place where ships are repaired or outfitted.
- 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
- Until recently activities in the Haven [Milford Haven] were confined virtually to the naval dockyard, now closed, and to coastal shipping and shipments to and from Ireland, both on a small scale.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]ship repair place
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “dockyard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.