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wet dock

wet dock noun: 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.

Noun

wet dock (plural wet docks)

  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.
    • 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.1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 90

wet dock meaning in Tamil and Kannada

wet dock in Tamil

கடல்துறைமுகம், நீர்த் துறை

wet dock in Kannada

ಜಲ ಹಡಗುಕಟ್ಟೆ, ತುಂಬು ನೀರಿರುವ ಹಡಗು ಕಟ್ಟೆ

Forms of wet dock

pluralwet docks

Questions about wet dock

What does wet dock mean?
Wet dock means 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.
What is wet dock in Tamil?
Wet dock in Tamil is கடல்துறைமுகம், நீர்த் துறை. See Wet dock meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wet dock?
Wet dock is a noun.
What is the plural of wet dock?
The plural of wet dock is wet docks.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wet dock (page history and authors); wet dock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wet dock (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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