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ship⋅yard

[ship-yahrd]
–noun
a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.

Origin:
1690–1700; ship + yard 2
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ship·yard   (shĭp'yärd')   
n.  A yard where ships are built or repaired.
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Word Origin & History

shipyard 
c.1700, from ship (n.) + yard (1).
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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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