NOUN
- a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline
How To Use dry dock In A Sentence
- Three large dry docks were built at the end of the 19th century to repair and refit warships. Times, Sunday Times
- The duck boats are still parked in dry dock.
- The crew was on the beach while the ship was in dry dock.
- In early 2002, HMS Rose had to be delivered down the East Coast, through the Panama Canal to a dry dock in San Diego and en route had a bowsprit damaged in a hurricane off Cape Hatteras.
- The slipway where she was launched is already more or less a national monument, as are the shipyard gantries above, and the dry dock where she was fitted out, and the building where she was planned. Will the Titanic Ever Sink?
- And they were literally going to be working around the clock to get that ship out of dry dock -- stored, provisioned, munitioned, oiled -- all the things that we had to do to be able to meet our sailing date. Remembering the Battle of the Atlantic
- The cabezons and lings on the north wall of the dry dock were huge.
- The crew was on the beach while the ship was in dry dock.
- Three large dry docks were built at the end of the 19th century to repair and refit warships. Times, Sunday Times
- Like they got rid of that dry dock down there.
