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ˈshipbuilding, vbl. n.
The business or art of building ships; naval architecture.
1717W. Sutherland (title) Britain's Glory, or, Shipbuilding unveil'd. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) I. 101 The art of ship-building in the fifteenth century was extremely rude. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 510 His own yacht, the Peregrine, renowned as the masterpiece of shipbuilding.
attrib.1846(title) The present Ship-building Controversy. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Shipbuilding-dock, a chamber with a floor and walls of stone masonry, having an opening toward the adjoining harbor, which can be closed when required. 1876Fawcett Pol. Econ. (ed. 5) iv. vii. 627 The decline of the ship-building trade on the Thames. 1883Queen's Printers Aids Bible 52/2 Cypress, a good ship⁓building timber. |