Definition & Meaning | English word DOCKS

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Definitions of DOCKS

1. A collection of docks, wharves, warehouses and offices
2. plural of dock.
3. inflection of dock

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Examples of Using DOCKS in a Sentence

• The transport sector comprises the physical infrastructure, docks and vehicle, terminals, fleets, ancillary equipment and service delivery of all the various modes of transport operating in Guyana.
• Such a base typically includes a stretch of open water for takeoffs and landings, and seaplane docks for tying-up.
• British ships in the harbor are able to rescue much of the merchandise that has been unloaded on the docks, but the inventory in marketplaces in town is destroyed.
• The name 'Port Talbot' first appears in 1837 as the name of the new docks built on the south-east side of the river Afan by the Talbot family.
• There were many docks and ferry crossings throughout Clay County to transport local crops and livestock to major markets.
• The town consists almost entirely of the Dreamland Inn (sometimes called the Dreamland Bar & Restaurant, Dreamland Hotel or "Dreamland Hotel and bar;" it is often referred to as being in Lake Linden—due to that being its mailing address) and some docks on Torch Bay.
• He grew up in Marseille, where, as a young man, he worked in his sister's beauty salon (Salon de Coiffure), as well as later on the docks.
• Eubulus restores the economic position of Athens without increasing the burden of taxation and improves the Athenian fleet while its docks and fortifications are repaired.
• He was a senior shop steward in the Transport and General Workers' Union for 14 years whilst at the docks, and became elected to the former Dyfed County Council, on which he served from 1981 until his election to Parliament in 1992.
• Brentford at the start of the 21st century attracted regeneration of its little-used warehouse premises and docks including the re-modelling of the waterfront to provide more economically active shops, townhouses and apartments, some of which comprises Brentford Dock.
• Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard HMS Resolution, and the mysterious apparent murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.
• Rotherhithe has a long history as a port, with Elizabethan shipyards and working docks until the 1970s.
• The district was historically dependent on its docks and other maritime trades, while the inland industrial concentrations led to its byname as the Factory centre of the south of England.
• In the nineteenth century, Peter Buschmann, a Norwegian immigrant, settled here, building a cannery, sawmill, docks and early structures.
• For the early decades of Port Costa's existence, much of the town's commercial activities took place on wharves and docks along the waterfront.
• Several dozen vessels and many of the docks they were moored to were destroyed as wave cycles related to the tsunamis exceeded.
• Newport became a center of commerce in the early 19th century, as Conestoga wagons transported farm products from as far away as Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Newport's docks on the Christina River, where the supplies were loaded on ships bound for Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
• The company platted the northern end of the key as Siesta on the Gulf of Mexico as well as dredged bayous and built docks.
• The island has a beach and a campground, as well as a harbor with boat docks and storage sheds to store boats during the winter.
• Boats would enter Lake Harbor and make a trip around the lake picking up crates of berries at the docks of the growers.

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