dry dock

nounC1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A dry dock is a basin drained of water so a hull can be worked on. Take her into dry dock.

The ship floats in, the gate shuts and the water is pumped out around it. A dry dock is the only way to reach the part of a ship that matters most.

Definitions of dry dock

1noundry dockA basin drained of water so a hull can be worked on.C1
“She was in dry dock for five months.”

dry dock is a dock.

drydock comes from dry + dock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

nounC1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A dry dock is a basin drained of water so a hull can be worked on. Take her into dry dock.

The ship floats in, the gate shuts and the water is pumped out around it. A dry dock is the only way to reach the part of a ship that matters most.

1noundry dockA basin drained of water so a hull can be worked on.C1
“She was in dry dock for five months.”

dry dock is a dock.

drydock comes from dry + dock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA