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floating dock
noun
- a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
floating dock
noun
- a large boxlike structure that can be submerged to allow a vessel to enter it and then floated to raise the vessel out of the water for maintenance or repair Also calledfloating dry dock
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Word History and Origins
Origin of floating dock1
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Example Sentences
Mr. Clark is now in partnership with Mr. Stanfield, and is the joint-inventor of Clark and Stanfield's circular floating dock.
It is a great floating dock, as it were, with a huge endless chain carrying 52 immense, 35-cubic-foot buckets.
He collided with something and found that Campbell had led toward a little floating dock where some skiffs were moored.
Benny was still unfurling his sail when his party came down to the floating dock the next morning.
Benny Merritt's stolid countenance grew still graver as the two drew near the floating dock.
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