[ship-yahrd] 
| a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired. |
| ship·yard (shĭp'yärd') n. A yard where ships are built or repaired. |
shipyard
shore establishment for building and repairing ships. The shipbuilding facilities of the ancient and medieval worlds reached a culmination in the arsenal of Venice, a shipyard in which a high degree of organization produced an assembly-line technique, with a ship's fittings added to the completed hull as it was floated past successive docks. In 18th-century British shipyards, the hull was towed to a floating stage called a sheer hulk, where it received its masts and rigging. Modern ships also are launched incomplete
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