Definitions for dry-dock

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Spelling: [drahy-dok]
IPA: /ˈdraɪˌdɒk/

Dry-Dock is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in dry-dock (-cddkory).

Definitions for dry-dock

noun

  1. a structure able to contain a ship and to be drained or lifted so as to leave the ship free of water with all parts of the hull accessible for repairs, painting, etc.

verb (used with object)

  1. to place (a ship) in a dry dock.

verb (used without object)

  1. (of a ship) to go into a dry dock.

Origin of dry-dock

First recorded in 1880-85

Examples for dry-dock

There's a lot of you who will have to go into dry-dock before long and get patched up.

A dry-dock is usually constructed with gates, to admit or shut out the tide.

True, her bottom is coppered and you dry-dock her every year; but that's an expense.

All of them had been killed except one or two who were in dry-dock for repairs.

There were many naval men there, and I paid an interesting visit to a damaged submarine which was being repaired in the dry-dock.

“I run her into dry-dock down to the city for repairs,” he said quietly.

He fell into a dry-dock and broke one of his thigh-bones, at the same time dislocating the joint.

She'd been runnin' eight months—two hunder an' forty days—an' I was three days makin' up my indents, when she went to dry-dock.

The sinking is brought about by filling the dry-dock with water.

Some of you dry-dock conservative ducks would have let it go by, but papa is nothing if not adventurous.

Word Value for dry-dock
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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