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Where ships are born, patched up, and occasionally left to rust as monuments to budgets.
means A waterfront yard equipped with docks, cranes, and workshops for building, repairing, or maintaining ships.
from A straightforward compound of 'dock' (the basin or berth where a ship sits to load, unload, or be worked on — itself traceable to Middle Dutch 'docke') and 'yard' (an enclosed working ground, from Old English 'geard'). The word surfaces in English as naval powers like Britain built large state-run shipbuilding and repair complexes, so 'dockyard' quickly came to mean not just one berth but the whole industrial sprawl around it — slips, storehouses, ropewalks, and all.
- not a dock
- a dock is one berth, a dockyard is the whole empire
- origin
- royal navy term, guarding ships since the 1500s
- modern twist
- many now build wind turbines, not warships
- biggest ones
- span kilometers, basically small industrial cities