floating dock
noun
: a dock that floats on the water and can be partly submerged to permit entry of a ship and raised to keep the ship high and dry
called also floating drydock
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Aalto University The end product is sleek, stable pontoons that are used as floatation for the company's line of floating docks.
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 7 Mar. 2025
What To Know Naval News, a specialist outlet, reported on Monday that a submarine was spotted in a floating dock at Guangzhou Shipyard in southern China, according to satellite imagery captured on January 10.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
The east-side floating dock will remain open during the project, the port said.
—Robert Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Doing the worm on the carpet and a cartwheel on the floating dock is not enough to impress, babes.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 22 July 2024
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 7 Mar. 2025
What To Know Naval News, a specialist outlet, reported on Monday that a submarine was spotted in a floating dock at Guangzhou Shipyard in southern China, according to satellite imagery captured on January 10.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
The east-side floating dock will remain open during the project, the port said.
—Robert Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Doing the worm on the carpet and a cartwheel on the floating dock is not enough to impress, babes.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 22 July 2024
See All Example Sentences for floating dock
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“Floating dock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/floating%20dock. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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