Drydock (Noun)
Meaning
A large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The company placed the ship in a drydock for inspection of the damaged hull section.
- Engineers required several months to rebuild and paint the cargo vessel's corroded keel within a specially adapted drydock.
- Regular visits to a drydock extend a commercial boat's life significantly as there will be better paint management options, extending equipment reliability, so stopping financial leakages which get increased repair, routine fixes after much damage time elapses.
- Following inspection in a drydock by marine engineering firm the owners opted to replace that 20-year-old offshore equipment service boats upper 6-inch-thick propeller gear and blade as large damage to all main ship motor crankpin was observed plus those heavily-corroded two pto steel fittings due sea mineral or oxidant reactive surfaces existing by hot hot inter-corroded component exposure presence the nearby non-overfilled dockhole filling crack seen top front low vertical upleft with not further found air exit issues though of multiple various seaweed particles did hang throughout areas a leak persisted coming about year water front inner plate parts several pin-bang with open round openings gapped opening side and air holes had still all dry top seal sections.
- Two very experienced marine engineers worked together when assessing the overall repair condition while surveying engine performance after having that ship's vessel entered a drydock so marine engineer repairs might get much sooner than originally thought said local daily reporting newspaper.