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US
/ˈdɑkˌjɑɹd/
]
[ UK /dˈɒkjɑːd/ ]
[ UK /dˈɒkjɑːd/ ]
NOUN
- an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired
How To Use dockyard In A Sentence
- The stout concrete walls surrounding the dockyard effectively shielded the proceedings from view. Titanic - Destination disaster
- And a few minutes later they found themselves in Wong-lih's comfortably-furnished office, in the ordnance department of the dockyard. A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
- He saw one of the dockyard's lighters making its way across the water.
- ‘I used to enjoy dockyards, harbours and coal mines,’ she says.
- At present, the ship and objects are separated by a walk of a quarter of a mile through the dockyard.
- In the old dockyard quarter of La Boca, US tourists posed for photos with tango artistes beside the most evil-smelling, polluted river I've ever come across.
- He could renew the ship's guardrails without recourse to a dockyard.
- The stout concrete walls surrounding the dockyard effectively shielded the proceedings from view. Titanic - Destination disaster
- A spokesman for the dockyard said they hoped to launch the first submarine within two years.
- Ports, harbours and dockyards reanimated the scams of Pepys's day.