Definition of Floating dry dock

1. Noun. Dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised.

Exact synonyms: Floating Dock
Generic synonyms: Dry Dock, Drydock, Graving Dock

Lexicographical Neighbors of Floating Dry Dock

floaties
floatiest
floatiness
floating
floating(a)
floating-moss
floating-point notation
floating-point number
floating-point operation
floating-point representation system
floating-point unit
floating-point units
floating bridge
floating cartilage
floating dock
floating dry dock (current term)
floating feeling
floating fern
floating island
floating islands
floating kidney
floating mine
floating organ
floating palette
floating palettes
floating patella
floating point
floating point operation
floating point operations
floating policy

Literary usage of Floating dry dock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1908)
"83769 H. floating dry dock No. IV at Rotterdam (Das Rotterdamer Schwimmdock IV). An illustrated detailed description of construction and operation. 2000 w. ..."

2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1840)
"Joseph T. Martin has obtained a patent for a new floating dry dock. It is described by the New York Sun, as being so constructed that it may be sunk with ..."

3. The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America from by United States (1862)
"Sectional от balance floating dry dock to be constructed at such harbor on the ... For completing the floating dry dock at Kittery, Maine, three hundred ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas for the by Henry Hilton (1859)
"The New York floating dry dock Co. which was deemed the proper and reasonable one under the circumstances. Seventeen months having gone by since the ..."

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