floating dock

noun

: a dock that floats on the water and can be partly submerged to permit entry of a ship and raised to keep the ship high and dry

called also floating drydock

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The park also features two new public piers, a floating dock, restrooms and a 5,580-square-foot ground mural titled Lady Bayview by Raylene Gorum, an artist with family roots in the Bayview. —

Shawna Chen, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024 The floating dock was built for local crewing programs. —

Karri Peifer, Axios, 10 July 2024 Alaska makes the top spot on the list, thanks to a surge of new offerings in the Inside Passage, from new cruise ships to a new port on Prince of Wales Island and a huge, floating dock in Skagway. —

Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2024 The Admiral Kuznetsov, launched in 1985, has been out of service and under repair since 2018 after a crane collapsed on it in a floating dock near Murmansk. —

David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for floating dock