wet dockn.

Brit.

/ˈwɛt dɒk/,

/ˌwɛt ˈdɒk/, U.S.

/ˈwɛt ˌdɑk/

(In contrast to dry dock n.)

†1. = dock n.³ 1. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. i. 1 A wet Docke is any place, where you may hale in a ship into the oze out of the tides way, where shee may docke her selfe.

2. (See dock n.³ 4.)

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1662 S. Pepys Diary 25 Jan. (1970) III. 18 Sir N. Crisp's project of making..about Deptford..a wett dock to hold 200 sail of ships.

1689 London Gaz. No. 2512/4 A Pink about 30 Tun, lying in the Wet-Dock at Deptford.

1724 London Gaz. No. 6321/3 The great wet Dock in Rotherhith.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxvii. 169 The harbour or wet-dock..will contain eighty men of war.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xviii. 263 The little inlet of water..where, as in a wet-dock, the skiff..was still lying moored.

1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 26/1 It is proposed to construct a ship canal from Newhaven Harbour to Lewes. with a wet-dock and basin at Lewes.

1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 466.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wet dock
释义	wet dockn. Brit. /ˈwɛt dɒk/, /ˌwɛt ˈdɒk/, U.S. /ˈwɛt ˌdɑk/ (In contrast to dry dock n.) †1. = dock n.³ 1. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. i. 1 A wet Docke is any place, where you may hale in a ship into the oze out of the tides way, where shee may docke her selfe. 2. (See dock n.³ 4.) ΚΠ 1662 S. Pepys Diary 25 Jan. (1970) III. 18 Sir N. Crisp's project of making..about Deptford..a wett dock to hold 200 sail of ships. 1689 London Gaz. No. 2512/4 A Pink about 30 Tun, lying in the Wet-Dock at Deptford. 1724 London Gaz. No. 6321/3 The great wet Dock in Rotherhith. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxvii. 169 The harbour or wet-dock..will contain eighty men of war. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xviii. 263 The little inlet of water..where, as in a wet-dock, the skiff..was still lying moored. View more context for this quotation 1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 26/1 It is proposed to construct a ship canal from Newhaven Harbour to Lewes. with a wet-dock and basin at Lewes. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 466. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas wet dock dry or graving dock, a narrow basin into which a single vessel is received, and from which the water is then pumped or let out, leaving the vessel dry for the purpose of repair. (Sometimes also used for building ships.) wet dock, a large watertight enclosure in which the water is maintained at the level of high tide, so that vessels remain constantly afloat in it. floating dock, a large floating structure that can be used like a dry dock.extracted from dockn.³ < n.1627 as lemmas
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