GC: n
S: GOV.UK – https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hms-bulwark-leaves-dry-dock-in-30m-refit (last access: 31 January 2014); BrightHub – http://www.brighthubengineering.com/naval-architecture/32659-drydocking-explained-types-of-dry-dock-methods/ (last access: 28 July 2015).
N: 1.- dry (adj): Middle English drie “without moisture, comparatively free from water or fluid,” from Old English dryge, from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (source also of Middle Low German dröge, Middle Dutch druge, Dutch droog, Old High German trucchon, German trocken, Old Norse draugr), from Germanic root *dreug- “dry.”
Meaning “barren” is mid-14c. Of persons, “showing no emotion,” c. 1200; of humor or jests, “without show of pleasantry, caustic, sarcastic” early 15c. (implied in dryly). Sense of “uninteresting, tedious” is from 1620s. Of wines, brandy, etc., “free from sweetness or fruity flavor,” 1700. Of places prohibiting alcoholic drink, 1870 (dry feast, one at which no liquor is served, is from late 15c.); colloquial dry (n.) “prohibitionist” is by 1888, American English political slang.
– dock (n): “ship’s berth, any structure in or upon which a ship may be held for loading, repairing, etc.,” late 15c., dokke, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German docke, which is perhaps ultimately (via Late Latin *ductia “aqueduct”) from Latin ducere “to lead” (from PIE root *deuk- “to lead”); or possibly from a Scandinavian word for “low ground” (compare Norwegian dokk “hollow, low ground”). The original sense was perhaps “furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank.”
2. Type of dock consisting of a rectangular basin dug into the shore of a body of water and provided with a removable enclosure wall or gate on the side toward the water, used for major repairs and overhaul of vessels.
When a ship is to be docked, the dry dock is flooded, and the gate removed. After the vessel is brought in, and properly positioned and guyed, the watertight gate is placed in its seat and the dock is pumped dry, bringing the craft gradually to rest on supporting blocks anchored to the floor.
3. A dock with gates from which water may be drained or pumped, leaving it dry to enable a vessel to be built or repaired.
dry dock: term standardized by ISO.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=dry%20dock&lc=es (last access: 16 June 2024). 2. EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/technology/dry-dock (last access: 28 July 2015). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=dry+dock&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 16 June 2024).
SYN: graving dock (depending on context)
S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=dry+dock&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 16 June 2024)
CR: beaching place, floating dock, grounding, shipyard, shoal, stranding, stranding site.
