Drydock (Verb)
Meaning
Maneuver (a ship) into a drydock.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The captain skillfully maneuvered the damaged freighter into drydock for much-needed repairs.
- After the long voyage, the maintenance crew was ready to drydock the ship for routine maintenance.
- Due to a navigation error, the crew had to call for tugboat assistance to drydock the massive ocean liner.
- To widen the propeller shaft, they had to carefully drydock the massive oil tanker for several days.
- It took several experienced pilots to safely drydock the enormous cruise ship in the busy harbor.