say it: DAH-kyahrd
dockyard is a noun meaning "an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired". It carries one recorded sense.
an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dockyard come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.