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wet dock en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A dock that has a constant level of water in which a vessel floats despite the tide; usually achieved by separating the dock from the sea by a lock.
    • 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 90, It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in.

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Translations (6)

fr darse (dock that has a constant level of water) · he מַעֲגַן סָכוּר (dock that has a constant level of water) · fi laivatokka (dock that has a constant level of water) · he בְּרֵכַת עֲגִינָה (dock that has a constant level of water) · pl basen portowy (dock that has a constant level of water) · pl basen (dock that has a constant level of water)