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Dry dock   /draɪ dɑk/   Listen
noun
Dock  n.  
1.
An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.
2.
The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.
3.
The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.
Balance dock, a kind of floating dock which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers.
Dry dock, a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls and floor, often of masonry and communicating with deep water, but having appliances for excluding it; used in constructing or repairing ships. The name includes structures used for the examination, repairing, or building of vessels, as graving docks, floating docks, hydraulic docks, etc.
Floating dock, a dock which is made to become buoyant, and, by floating, to lift a vessel out of water.
Graving dock, a dock for holding a ship for graving or cleaning the bottom, etc.
Hydraulic dock, a dock in which a vessel is raised clear of the water by hydraulic presses.
Naval dock, a dock connected with which are naval stores, materials, and all conveniences for the construction and repair of ships.
Sectional dock, a form of floating dock made in separate sections or caissons.
Slip dock, a dock having a sloping floor that extends from deep water to above high-water mark, and upon which is a railway on which runs a cradle carrying the ship.
Wet dock, a dock where the water is shut in, and kept at a given level, to facilitate the loading and unloading of ships; also sometimes used as a place of safety; a basin.


Dry dock  n.  (Naut.) See under Dock.


adjective
Dry  adj.  (compar. drier; superl. driest)  
1.
Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; said especially:
(a)
Of the weather: Free from rain or mist. "The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season."
(b)
Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.
(c)
Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.
(d)
Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink. "Give the dry fool drink."
(e)
Of the eyes: Not shedding tears. "Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly."
(f)
(Med.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.
2.
Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain. "These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament."
3.
Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit. "He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body."
4.
(Fine Arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.
Dry area (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the foundation of a building to guard it from damp.
Dry blow.
(a)
(Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of blood.
(b)
A quick, sharp blow.
Dry bone (Min.), Smithsonite, or carbonate of zinc; a miner's term.
Dry castor (Zool.) a kind of beaver; called also parchment beaver.
Dry cupping. (Med.) See under Cupping.
Dry dock. See under Dock.
Dry fat. See Dry vat (below).
Dry light, pure unobstructed light; hence, a clear, impartial view. "The scientific man must keep his feelings under stern control, lest they obtrude into his researches, and color the dry light in which alone science desires to see its objects."
Dry masonry. See Masonry.
Dry measure, a system of measures of volume for dry or coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc.
Dry pile (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; called also Zamboni's, from the names of the two earliest constructors of it.
Dry pipe (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam from a boiler.
Dry plate (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening.
Dry-plate process, the process of photographing with dry plates.
Dry point. (Fine Arts)
(a)
An engraving made with the needle instead of the burin, in which the work is done nearly as in etching, but is finished without the use acid.
(b)
A print from such an engraving, usually upon paper.
(c)
Hence: The needle with which such an engraving is made.
Dry rent (Eng. Law), a rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress.
Dry rot, a decay of timber, reducing its fibers to the condition of a dry powdery dust, often accompanied by the presence of a peculiar fungus (Merulius lacrymans), which is sometimes considered the cause of the decay; but it is more probable that the real cause is the decomposition of the wood itself. Called also sap rot, and, in the United States, powder post.
Dry stove, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates.
Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles.
Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is perceptible; opposed to sweet wine, in which the saccharine matter is in excess.





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"Dry dock" Quotes from Famous Books



... there will be no difficulty in landing the largest rigid airships in a wind of from thirty-five to forty miles an hour. This spells an immense advance. Sheds will still be necessary for overhauls and repairs, as a dry dock is necessary for sea-going vessels. But an airship on service may be moored to the mast, as a sea-going vessel is moored to a quay, and can take on board or discharge cargo, passengers, ...
— The War in the Air; Vol. 1 - The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force • Walter Raleigh
... having lots of fun in command myself, and good experience. I have taken her out on patrol up to Norfolk twice, where the channel is as thin and crooked as a corkscrew, then into dry dock. Later, escorted a submarine down, then docked the ship alongside of a collier, and have established, to my own satisfaction at least, that I know how to handle a ship. All this may not convey much, but you remember how you felt when you first handled ...
— World's War Events, Volume III • Various
... both Houses of Congress a report from the Secretary of the Navy, together with that of the engineer by whom, conformably to a joint resolution of the two Houses of the 22d May last, an examination and survey has been made of a site for a dry dock at the navy-yard at Portsmouth, N. H.; Charlestown, Mass.; Brooklyn, N. Y., ...
— A Compilation of Messages and Letters of the Presidents - 2nd section (of 3) of Volume 2: John Quincy Adams • Editor: James D. Richardson
... busy among the chattering steins at Dutch Mike's that night. Close by his side drew Brick Cleary, his Mercutio, companion of his perambulations. Thus they stood, four of the Mulberry Hill Gang and two of the Dry Dock Gang, minding their P's and Q's so solicitously that Dutch Mike kept one eye on his customers and the other on an open space beneath his bar in which it was his custom to seek safety whenever the ominous politeness of the rival associations congealed ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry
... and only One to whose feet the waters were the same as a dry dock," returned the cockswain; "and none but such as have his power will ever be able to walk from these rocks to the sands." The old seaman paused, and turning his eyes, which exhibited a mingled expression of disgust ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper


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