wet dock
(In contrast to dry dock.)
† 1. = dock n.3 1 (where see quot. 1627). Obs.
2. (See dock n.3 4.)
| 1661–2 [see dock n.3 4]. 1689 Lond. Gaz. No. 2512/4 A Pink about 30 Tun, lying in the Wet-Dock at Deptford. 1724 Ibid. No. 6321/3 The great wet Dock in Rotherhith. 1753 Hanway Trav. (1762) I. vii. lxxxvi. 400 The harbour or wet-dock..will contain eighty men of war. 1814 Scott Wav. xviii, The little inlet of water..where, as in a wet⁓dock, the skiff..was still lying moored. 1839 Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 26/1 It is proposed to construct a ship canal from Newhaven Harbour to Lewes. with a wet-dock and basin at Lewes. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 466. |