dockyards in English

noun
1
an area or establishment with docks and equipment for repairing and maintaining ships.
When Henry VIII founded a dockyard for building ships in Deptford, the area became renowned across the shipping industry.

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1. He's from the Scottish dockyards, isn't he?

2. King's Wharf Bermuda is a cruise terminal located in Bermuda's west end, at the Royal Navy Dockyards

3. Near the dockyards, Peter moved into the house of diarist John Evelyn. But the still rowdy and uncivilized Czar and his friends wreck it.

4. Destruction of the dockyards and railway workshops and the sinking of vessels on the Nile, could cut the link between Khartoum and Cairo.

5. Alcaeus Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity

6. 29 Near the dockyards, Peter moved into the house of diarist John Evelyn. But the still rowdy and uncivilized Czar and his friends wreck it.

7. The Fernando, Bill Anderson's yacht (actually a ketch) in the film was the Tai-Mo-Shan built in 1934 by H. S. Rouse at the Hong Kong and Whampoa dockyards.

8. – Alcaeus Rate it: Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.