dry dock

What does dry dock mean?

dry dock means "a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline".

What is another word for dry dock?

Close synonyms include drydock, graving dock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dry dock a common word?

dry dock is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dry dock come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.