(In contrast to DRY DOCK.)

1

  † 1.  = DOCK sb.3 1 (where see quot. 1627). Obs.

2

  2.  (See DOCK sb.3 4.)

3

1661–2.  [see DOCK sb.3 4].

4

1689.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2512/4. A Pink about 30 Tun, lying in the Wet-Dock at Deptford. Ibid. (1724), No. 6321/3. The great wet Dock in Rotherhith.

5

1753.  Hanway, Trav. (1762), I. VII. lxxxvi. 400. The harbour or wet-dock … will contain eighty men of war.

6

1814.  Scott, Wav., xviii. The little inlet of water … where, as in a wet-dock, the skiff … was still lying moored.

7

1839.  Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl., II. 26/1. It is proposed to construct a ship canal from Newhaven Harbour to Lewes, with a wet-dock and basin at Lewes.

8

1880.  Encycl. Brit., XI. 466.

9