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  • noun Plural form of drydock.

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Examples

  • We were about to set in for refitting in the drydocks of Neptune when Capitaine Merroux of the Frégate Royaux Joyeuse came forth with a grand announcement.

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  • The shipyard sprawls over 11 square kilometers (4.2 square miles) and includes nine drydocks, the biggest of which is longer than seven football fields and can build four vessels simultaneously.

    High-Speed Wireless Transforms a Shipyard Evan Ramstad 2010

  • The shipyard sprawls over 11 square kilometers (4.2 square miles) and includes nine drydocks, the biggest of which is longer than seven football fields and can build four vessels simultaneously.

    High-Speed Wireless Transforms a Shipyard Evan Ramstad 2010

  • The shipyard sprawls over 11 square kilometers (4.2 square miles) and includes nine drydocks, the biggest of which is longer than seven football fields and can build four vessels simultaneously.

    High-Speed Wireless Transforms a Shipyard Evan Ramstad 2010

  • The city has called for the creation of more drydocks — contradicting an earlier action when officials allowed Ikea to dismantle a large drydock in Red Hook — and Monday unveiled a “vision plan” for the Sunset Park industrial waterfront.

    Bloomberg Offers Support for Freight Tunnel; City Warms to Industrial Waterfront 2009

  • Report of the Secretary of the navy, communicating copies of contracts for the construction of drydocks, basins and railways, at Kittery, Philadelphia, ... a floating sectional dock at San Francisco. by Michigan Historical Reprint Series

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Clinton Has Her Own Problems 2009

  • In 2005, the company added capacity by figuring out how to build giant, oceangoing ships on land, saving itself the time and expense of building more drydocks.

    SK Telecom Scores 2008

  • Had he simply spoken up all those years ago about his marriage, I am firmly convinced Mr. Skywalker would be a Senior Technician at Sienar Fleet Systems drydocks snuggling his little honey bunny each night with five kids by now.

    Parenting 101 2005

  • Already formidable technical skills were being enhanced through impromptu on-the-job training as they took on some of the more complex tasks usually performed at drydocks and starbases.

    A Time to Sow Dayton Ward 2004

  • Already formidable technical skills were being enhanced through impromptu on-the-job training as they took on some of the more complex tasks usually performed at drydocks and starbases.

    A Time to Sow Dayton Ward 2004

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