DOCKYARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dockyard mean? 

• DOCKYARD (noun)
  The noun DOCKYARD has 1 sense:

1. an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired

  Familiarity information: DOCKYARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOCKYARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("dockyard" is a kind of...):

waterfront (the area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water)

 Context examples 

There had been no free conversation, no walk on the ramparts, no visit to the dockyard, no acquaintance with the Thrush, nothing of all that they had planned and depended on.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“We shall never do any good upon the ocean until we have hanged the dockyard contractors,” he cried.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’d have a dead dockyard contractor as a figure-head for every first-rate in the fleet, and a provision dealer for every frigate.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once fairly in the dockyard, he began to reckon upon some happy intercourse with Fanny, as they were very soon joined by a brother lounger of Mr. Price's, who was come to take his daily survey of how things went on, and who must prove a far more worthy companion than himself; and after a time the two officers seemed very well satisfied going about together, and discussing matters of equal and never-failing interest, while the young people sat down upon some timbers in the yard, or found a seat on board a vessel in the stocks which they all went to look at.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When you think that in the last year of the war we had 140,000 seamen and mariners afloat, commanded by 4000 officers, and that half of these had been turned adrift when the Peace of Amiens laid their ships up in the Hamoaze or Portsdown creek, you will understand that London, as well as the dockyard towns, was full of seafarers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And besides, he wanted her so very much to see the Thrush before she went out of harbour—the Thrush was certainly the finest sloop in the service—and there were several improvements in the dockyard, too, which he quite longed to shew her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They were then to set forward for the dockyard at once, and the walk would have been conducted—according to Mr. Crawford's opinion—in a singular manner, had Mr. Price been allowed the entire regulation of it, as the two girls, he found, would have been left to follow, and keep up with them or not, as they could, while they walked on together at their own hasty pace.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The conclusion of the two gentlemen's civilities was an offer of Mr. Price's to take Mr. Crawford into the dockyard, which Mr. Crawford, desirous of accepting as a favour what was intended as such, though he had seen the dockyard again and again, and hoping to be so much the longer with Fanny, was very gratefully disposed to avail himself of, if the Miss Prices were not afraid of the fatigue; and as it was somehow or other ascertained, or inferred, or at least acted upon, that they were not at all afraid, to the dockyard they were all to go; and but for Mr. Crawford, Mr. Price would have turned thither directly, without the smallest consideration for his daughters' errands in the High Street.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He did not want abilities but he had no curiosity, and no information beyond his profession; he read only the newspaper and the navy-list; he talked only of the dockyard, the harbour, Spithead, and the Motherbank; he swore and he drank, he was dirty and gross.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She felt that she had never seen so agreeable a man in her life; and was only astonished to find that, so great and so agreeable as he was, he should be come down to Portsmouth neither on a visit to the port-admiral, nor the commissioner, nor yet with the intention of going over to the island, nor of seeing the dockyard.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)