Definition of Dockyards

1. Noun. (plural of dockyard) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dockyards

1. dockyard [n] - See also: dockyard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dockyards

dockless
docklike
dockmackie
dockmackies
dockmaster
dockmasters
dockominium
dockominiums
docks
dockside
docksides
dockworker
dockworkers
dockworking
dockyard
dockyards (current term)
doco
docodont
docodonts
docoglossa
docos
docosadienoic
docosadienoic acid
docosahexaenoic
docosahexaenoic acid
docosahexaenoic acids
docosahexaenoyl
docosahexenoate
docosahexenoic acid
docosane

Literary usage of Dockyards

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1860)
"Next came Mr. Laws, the storekeeper at Chatham Dockyard, who had been employed in the dockyards for upwards of forty years. Then there was Mr. Andrew Murray ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"The Cost of Shipbuilding in HM dockyards. By FRANK P. FELLOWS, Kt.S.JJ., FSU, FSA This paper showed that about 1000000/. per year less was spent on the navy ..."

3. Harbours and Docks: Their Physical Features, History, Construction by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1885)
"Sites for dockyards. Differences between dockyards and Commercial Docks. ... NATIONAL dockyards are generally established where deep water and good natural ..."

4. Harbours and Docks: Their Physical Features, History, Construction by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1885)
"Sites for dockyards. Differences between dockyards and Commercial Docks. ... NATIONAL dockyards are generally established where deep water and good natural ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The director of dockyards replaced the surveyor of dockyards in 1885, ... It is upon the director of dockyards Ч? ) that the responsibility of the ..."

6. Speeches of the Right Honourable Lord Randolph Churchill, M. P., 1880-1888 by Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (1889)
"OUR NAVY AND dockyards. HOUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 18, 1887. [The following speech was delivered in Committee of Supply during the discussion on Naval Estimates ..."

7. The British Navy: Its Strength, Resources, and Administration by Thomas Brassey Brassey (1883)
"Large dismissals of workmen shake the confidence of those employed in the dockyards; a spasmodic increase of activity is always costly, and designs not ..."

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