boatyard

noun boat·yard \ ˈbōt-ˌyärd \

|Updated on: 18 Aug 2018

Definition of boatyard

: a yard where boats are built, repaired, and stored and often sold or rented

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Recent Examples of boatyard from the Web

Along the Waterline, the solo exhibit by photographer Cohen, included abstract images of often worn boat hulls encrusted with the evidence of the past seasons sitting on cradles in boatyards.

— Courant Community, "Community News For The Valley Edition," 19 June 2018
Juliette’s major love interests — two of them, anyway — are brothers whose family owns a modest boatyard.

— New York Times, "Beautiful People in European Villas: a Film Genre of Its Own," 15 May 2018
Tonning talked her way into deckhand gigs on Zerlang’s tugboats and the Madaket, and immersed herself in the local maritime culture, taking up residence in a trailer at the boatyard.

— robert earle howells, SFChronicle.com, "Insider: A sea captain’s guide to Eureka," 5 July 2018
Along the Waterline, the solo exhibit by photographer Cohen, included abstract images of often worn boat hulls encrusted with the evidence of the past seasons sitting on cradles in boatyards.

— Courant Community, "Community News For The Valley Edition," 19 June 2018
The eatery was going to have a deck and a two-story, six-slip boatyard.

— david smiley and glenn garvin, miamiherald, "Mystery Miamian tied to Trump probe had many names, foul mouth, 2 DUI busts," 19 June 2018
The boatyard, said Ginsburg, is in the center of a 900 Innes St. parcel bought by the city in 2014 for the project.

— leah garchik, SFChronicle.com, "Natural promise at city’s southeastern corner," 25 June 2018
Along the Waterline, the solo exhibit by photographer Cohen, included abstract images of often worn boat hulls encrusted with the evidence of the past seasons sitting on cradles in boatyards.

— Courant Community, "Community News For The Valley Edition," 19 June 2018
Along the Waterline, the solo exhibit by photographer Cohen, included abstract images of often worn boat hulls encrusted with the evidence of the past seasons sitting on cradles in boatyards.

— Courant Community, "Community News For The Valley Edition," 19 June 2018

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