floating dock
noun
: a dock that floats on the water and can be partly submerged to permit entry of a ship and raised to keep the ship high and dry
called also floating drydock
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web This waterfront brick colonial backs up to Lake Ogleton and has a deep-water pier with a mean low water depth of 6 feet, with slips for three boats and a floating dock and quick access to the Chesapeake Bay and Severn River. 
Mary Carole Mccauley, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2022 Those who get a board will paddle out to a floating dock where the puzzle pieces are anchored. Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 8 June 2022 The floating dock will be anchored to an old timber loading dock that today sees only a handful of ships a year through a private logging company, project officials said. Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2022 Between trips, the sub can be recharged and restocked in a port or floating dock. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 May 2022 The water zone proposes new floating docks between the two piers, with the floating dock and gangway area totaling 152,800 square feet. San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2022 The Floating Piers will involve a modular floating dock system of 200,000 high-density polyethylene cubes to support the fabric, creating a two-mile walkway from the town of Sulzano to the island of Monte Isola and around the island of San Paolo. The Editors, Outside Online, 5 May 2015 Kuznetsov has broken down at sea, suffered an electrical fire that killed one crewman, caught fire in drydock, and lost its drydock when the floating dock PD-50 abruptly sank. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2022 The agency has graded the parking lot and installed a floating dock and an information kiosk at the pond on Stephen R. Road in the Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge near Franklin. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021 See More
Mary Carole Mccauley, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2022 Those who get a board will paddle out to a floating dock where the puzzle pieces are anchored. Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 8 June 2022 The floating dock will be anchored to an old timber loading dock that today sees only a handful of ships a year through a private logging company, project officials said. Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2022 Between trips, the sub can be recharged and restocked in a port or floating dock. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 May 2022 The water zone proposes new floating docks between the two piers, with the floating dock and gangway area totaling 152,800 square feet. San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2022 The Floating Piers will involve a modular floating dock system of 200,000 high-density polyethylene cubes to support the fabric, creating a two-mile walkway from the town of Sulzano to the island of Monte Isola and around the island of San Paolo. The Editors, Outside Online, 5 May 2015 Kuznetsov has broken down at sea, suffered an electrical fire that killed one crewman, caught fire in drydock, and lost its drydock when the floating dock PD-50 abruptly sank. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2022 The agency has graded the parking lot and installed a floating dock and an information kiosk at the pond on Stephen R. Road in the Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge near Franklin. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1776, in the meaning defined above