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Meaning of wet dock | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A dock that has a constant level of water in which a vessel floats despite the tide; usually achieved by separating the dock from the sea by a lock.

Equivalents

Suomi laivatokka

Français darse

Polski basen basen portowy

Examples

“1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 90, It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

wet dog shakes wet dream wet dress rehearsal wet edge time wet end wet fart