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dry dock
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dry dock has 1 sense
- dry dock(n = noun.artifact) drydock, graving dock - a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline; Array is a kind of dock, dockage, docking facility
has particulars: floating dock, floating dry dock
is a part of shipyard
THESAURUS
dry dock
anchorage, anchorage ground, basin, berth, breakwater, bulkhead, dock, dockage, dockyard, embankment, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, marina, mole, moorings, pier, port, protected anchorage, quay, road, roads, roadstead, seaport, seawall, shipyard, slip, wharf
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