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dockyards

dockyards is the plural of dockyard.

Meaning of dockyard

Noun

dockyard (plural dockyards)

  1. A place where ships are repaired or outfitted.
    • Until recently activities in the Haven [Milford Haven] were confined virtually to the naval dockyard, now closed, and to coastal shipping and shipments to and from Ireland, both on a small scale.1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492

Questions about dockyards

What is dockyards the plural of?
Dockyards is the plural of dockyard.

Words near dockyards in the dictionary

  1. docky
  2. docky time
  3. dockyard
  4. dockyardman
  5. dockyardmen
  6. dockyards
  7. doco
  8. docodont
  9. docodontan
  10. docodontans
  11. docodontid

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