navy yard

English

Noun

navy yard (plural navy yards)

  1. A place set apart as a shore station for the use of the navy. It often contains all the mechanical and other appliances for building and equipping war vessels and training their crews.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for navy yard in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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