MEANING
An area with facilities for building, maintaining, or repairing ships.
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Words that belong together
- naval dockyard
- dockyard cranes
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Dockyard cranes stood against the sky.
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- dockyard
Usage notes
Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Singular dockyard; plural dockyards. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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