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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of drydock.

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Examples

  • It is so secret that when a sub comes in from patrol its propeller is shrouded with a large covering, and if a sub is drydocked for any length of time, it is commonly removed and stored away from the ship for servicing and prying eyes.

    Obama’s new policy on nukes: I guess he wants to earn that Nobel ex post facto 2010

  • 'Escape Route' takes us to the last voyage of the Lady MacBeth under the captaincy of Joshua Calvert's father and explains exactly what happened to trash the ship so badly it was drydocked at Tranquillity for thirty years.

    A Second Chance at Eden by Peter F. Hamilton Adam Whitehead 2009

  • 'Escape Route' takes us to the last voyage of the Lady MacBeth under the captaincy of Joshua Calvert's father and explains exactly what happened to trash the ship so badly it was drydocked at Tranquillity for thirty years.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

  • He may have been temporarily assigned to the Trident while we were drydocked with repairs, but he was still under my command, and I know him better than anyone here.

    Stone and Anvil Peter David 2003

  • Jim—the Enterprise will have to be drydocked for repairs anyway—

    The Vulcan Academy Murders Jean Lorrah 2000

  • She said although the Emily Hobhouse was at sea, the country's two other submarines had been drydocked and were both out of commission.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The object of the "Rewa's" trip to Alexandria was to get drydocked and have her hull scraped.

    The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson

  • When she drydocked ot Portland, there was whuskers on her a foot long, barnacles the size o 'me fust, oysters like young sauce plates.

    The Sea Farmer 1914

  • My ship's been drydocked and overhauled and she's in New York now loadin 'for Manila.

    Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • When she drydocked ot Portland, there was whuskers on her a foot long, barnacles the size o 'me fust, oysters like young sauce plates.

    The Strength of the Strong Jack London 1896

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