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boatyard

boatyard noun: a place where boats are built and repaired.

boatyard: a place where boats are built and repaired
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Noun

boatyard (plural boatyards)

  1. A place where boats are built and repaired.
  2. (rare) A shipyard.
    • There’s money for nurse training, Medicare, Head Start, boatyard support, home weatherization and so on.2009 January 23, David Brooks, “The First Test”, in New York Times

Forms of boatyard

pluralboatyards

Origin of boatyard

From boat + yard.

Questions about boatyard

What does boatyard mean?
Boatyard means a place where boats are built and repaired.
What part of speech is boatyard?
Boatyard is a noun.
What is the plural of boatyard?
The plural of boatyard is boatyards.

Words near boatyard in the dictionary

  1. boaty
  2. Boaty McBoatface
  3. Boaty McBoatfaced
  4. Boaty McBoatfaces
  5. Boaty McBoatfacing
  6. boatyard
  7. boatyards
  8. Boaz
  9. bob
  10. Bob Andy pie
  11. Bob Andy pies

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