GC: n
S: The Guardian – http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/06/bae-shipyard-job-cuts-westminister (last access: 31 January 2014); BBC – https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-67458055 (last access: 12 June 2024).
N: 1. shipyard (n.): c.1700, from ship (n.) + yard (n.1).
– ship (n.): Old English scip “ship, boat,” from Proto-Germanic *skipam (cognates: Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Gothic skip, Danish skib, Swedish skepp, Middle Dutch scip, Dutch schip, Old High German skif, German Schiff), “Germanic noun of obscure origin” (Watkins). Others suggest perhaps originally “tree cut out or hollowed out,” and derive it from PIE root *skei- “to cut, split.”
Now a vessel of considerable size, adapted to navigation; the Old English word was used for small craft as well, and definitions changed over time; in 19c., distinct from a boat in having a bowsprit and three masts, each with a lower, top, and topgallant mast. French esquif, Italian schifo are Germanic loan-words.
– yard (n.1): “patch of ground around a house,” Old English geard “fenced enclosure, garden, court; residence, house,” from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (cognates: Old Norse garðr “enclosure, garden, yard;” Old Frisian garda, Dutch gaard, Old High German garto, German Garten “garden;” Gothic gards “house,” garda “stall”), from PIE *ghor-to-, suffixed form of root *gher- (1) “to grasp, enclose,” with derivatives meaning “enclosure” (cognates: Old English gyrdan “to gird,” Sanskrit ghra- “house,” Albanian garth “hedge,” Latin hortus “garden,” Phrygian -gordum “town,” Greek khortos “pasture,” Old Irish gort “field,” Breton garz “enclosure, garden,” and second element in Latin cohors “enclosure, yard, company of soldiers, multitude”).
2. A place where ships are built or repaired.
3. Shore establishment for building and repairing ships. The shipbuilding facilities of the ancient and medieval worlds reached a culmination in the arsenal of Venice, a shipyard in which a high degree of organization produced an assembly-line technique, with a ship’s fittings added to the completed hull as it was floated past successive docks. In 18th-century British shipyards, the hull was towed to a floating stage called a sheer hulk, where it received its masts and rigging. Modern ships also are launched incomplete.
4. Typically, a shipyard has a limited number of building berths, sloping down toward the waterway, with large adjacent working areas. Plates and sections are delivered to a point distant from the berth and converge toward the berth as they are assembled into components and subassemblies, which are ultimately welded together. Very large ships are often built in deep drydocks because of the greater convenience in lowering large components. When the hull is complete, water is admitted and the ship floated to the fitting-out basin.
S: 1. Etymonline – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=shipyard&searchmode=none (last access: 5 September 2014); FCB. 2. EncBrit – https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/shipyard, https://www.britannica.com/technology/shipyard (last access: 13 June 2024).
GV: ship yard
S: GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/10881444/chantier-de-construction-navale (last access: 13 June 2024)
SYN: boatyard, dockyard. (depending on context)
S: GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8880402/chantier-naval (last access: 13 June 2024)
CR: beaching place, dry dock, floating dock, grounding, shoal, stranding, stranding site.
