0 an area of water that can be emptied and used for repairing ships
1 an area from which the water can be removed in order for ships to be built or repaired:
Arriving here, the vessels went at once into dry dock while a force of men who were in waiting proceeded to clean and paint the hulls, while stores and provisions to last three months were assembled.
It is free from ice the entire year, and has a little cove or bay that could be converted into a dry dock at small expense.
It is, however, a shaft that cannot be inspected except when in dry dock, and has to be disconnected from the propeller, and drawn inside for examination at periods suggested by experience.
The boat is good for many a trip yet, though it is true, as you know, that she is to go into dry dock for overhauling on her return.
Does it have the infrastructures for putting a ship in dry dock, and so on?
Here, again, we need a new large dry dock so that we can build such vessels.
I have mentioned two ambitious schemes today—the dry dock scheme and the vertical take-off project.