graving-dock

All were hungry and happy, all better in mind and body, -- illustrating the wise providence of the instinct that whispers to the over-wrought artisan and bids him go sometimes forth on a summer's day to the woods and waters, -- a move which the marine character of the subject impels me to speak of nautically, but reverently, as taking himself and family into the graving-dock of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

The critics next day referred to it as a nocturne in black and gold, and more than one of the daily journals contained an enthusiastic description of the subject -- an ocean-steamer entering a Thames graving-dock at night-time, with torch-light effects; and a mist on the river.

A Comedy of Masks A Novel Arthur Moore 1909

* [2] Those alterations in the design were carried out, together with a spacious graving-dock, as shown in the preceding plan, and they proved completely successful, enabling Peterhead to offer an amount of accommodation for shipping of a more effectual kind than was at that time to be met with along the whole eastern coast of Scotland.

The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867

Commissioners had now made a fine new graving-dock, and connected the

Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles 1858