navy yard

American  

noun

1. a government dockyard where naval ships are built, repaired, and fitted out, and naval supplies and munitions are laid up.

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navy yard British  

noun

1. a naval shipyard, esp in the US

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Etymology

Origin of navy yard

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

So The Oregon Board of Health brought an infected tissue sample from the navy yard in Bremerton, Washington, to Dr. Lawrence’s lab in Portland.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023

AP dispatches said Confederate ironclad vessels were blown up and the navy yard burned at Savannah.

From Washington Times • Dec. 12, 2014

Two 45,000-ton battleships awarded went to the Brooklyn and Philadelphia Navy Yards, giving navy yard ways five out of eight U. S. battlewagons now on order.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yazoo City, Miss.; pop. 11,732; 40 miles northwest of Jackson; site of a Confederate navy yard burned down but never captured by Union troops.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I heard a tremendous explosion, and, rushing out, saw that the public buildings, navy yard, ropewalks, &c., were on fire.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis