dockyard
nounEtymology From dock + yard.
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:
- Derived terms
- dockyardman