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graving dock

noun

Nautical.
  1. an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.


graving dock

noun

  1. another term for dry dock
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of graving dock1

First recorded in 1830–40
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It begins at night, with the boat being towed in under spotlights to a “graving dock,†from which water is then pumped out.

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Through that window he could watch his Western Star graving in the graving dock.

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New ships - including the Malaspina and other mainline Alaska ferries - were first built in a graving dock, a pit dug in the earth with doors at one end that opened to the ocean.

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To the south of the town are the Alameda parade and gardens, a lunatic asylum, the dockyard, graving docks and the naval and military hospitals.

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The largest ships can enter the harbour, which has a minimum depth of 30 ft.; it has two dry docks, a graving dock and a floating dry dock.

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