dockyardn.
/ˈdɒkjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈdɑkˌjɑrd/ A more or less spacious enclosure, adjoining the sea or a river, in which ships are built and repaired, and all kinds of ships' stores are prepared or brought together; esp. in British use, applied to the Government establishments of this character for the use of the navy, in U.S. called navy-yards.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > shipyard or boat-yard > [noun] > dockyard
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1704 London Gaz. 4080/3 [He] landed at the Dock-Yard at Blackwall.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 81 Peter the Great..worked with a hatchet among the carpenters in our dock-yards.
1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. 297 Three dockyards were speedily established in Phœnicia.
Compounds
C1. attributive.
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1820 J. Keats Robin Hood in Lamia & Other Poems 135 All his oaks, Fall'n beneath the dockyard strokes, Have rotted on the briny seas.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xi. 140 The dock-yard boat, with all the pay clerks, and the cashier..came.
C2.
dockyard man n. (also dockyard-man) a man permanently employed in a Government dockyard.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > boat-builder or shipbuilder > [noun] > man employed at dockyard
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1801 Ld. Nelson Let. 31 July (1845) 433 The Vessels should be..ready for the Dock-yard men to be put on board.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 11 Soldiers, sailors,..and dockyard men.
1906 Outlook 20 Nov. 495/2 Dockyardmen who are in danger of losing that otium cum dignitate which they have regarded as their perquisite.
1909 Pall Mall. Gaz. 12 Apr. 3/2 Naval men, or dockyard-men, which practically amounts to the same thing, raised Torpedo-boat No. 99 after she was sunk off Berry Head.
dockyard matey n. colloquial = dockyard man n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > boat-builder or shipbuilder > [noun] > man employed at dockyard
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1829 W. N. Glascock Sailors & Saints III. 95 The ‘Dock-yard-Maties’—a class of men, whose hostility, and turbulent insolence to naval officers..is proverbial.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. viii. 95 I asked of a bye-stander who these people were, and he told me that they were dock-yard mateys.
1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 16 A gray, cigar-shaped vessel lying in a dry dock, with dockyard ‘maties’ swarming on board her.
1918 ‘Taffrail’ Little Ship ii. 26 The dockyard-maties had slapped on the service gray paint over coal-dust and dirt alike.
1942 N. Monsarrat H.M. Corvette i. 11 Aft, the Torpedoman was arguing..with a welder, a Clydeside dockyard-matey.
1958 E. Hyams Taking it Easy i. ii. 72 The dockyard ‘mateys’ who had been sent us to do the work were all Bretons from the Arsenal at Brest.
1974 ‘M. Hebden’ Pride of Dolphins iii. iii. 232 Many of the lights in the control room were missing, probably stolen by dockyard mateys.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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