Lexic.us

Definition of Navy yard

1. Noun. A military shipyard.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Navy Yard

Literary usage of Navy yard

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

1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1860)
"For pay of the civil establishment at the navy-yard in Washington, District of Columbia, viz: For pay of chief naval constructor, three thousand dollars; ..."

2. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1900)
"ON THE EXAMINATION OF NAVY-YARD APPRENTICES. By HENRY G. BEYER, ... Navy-yard Order No. 14, Revised, requires that each applicant shall be marked for his ..."

3. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States by Horace Greeley (1866)
"Taliaferro—a Virginia brigadier who reached Norfolk from Richmond on the 18th—was reported to be preparing to seize the navy yard and ..."

4. The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps by Lewis Randolph Hamersly (1898)
"June, 1894, to 1897 ; promoted to Commander, September, 1895; ordered to Navy Yard, New York, May, 1897 ; commanding training- ship " Vicksburg. ..."

5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"NAVY-YARD, NKW-YORK, April 85. IT is a part of the history of the times in which we live that in April last I was sent from Washington to the Navy-Yard at ..."

6. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1885)
"Different New York Militia Regiments were quartered at this old navy yard during the early period of the war, which was located on the eastern branch of the ..."

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