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boatyard

boatyard

6 4.1
A place where people build, fix, or store boats
  • noun
  • /ˈboʊtiˌjɑrd/
translation icon : astillero
  • I turn down the narrow road to the boatyard and restaurant that supplement the local fishermen's incomes in summer.
  • marinas and boatyards
  • an old boatyard
  • go to the boatyard

Those summers we would spend at my Nana's house, Nan and Pop had a boatyard were magical.

Examples

  • Which way to the boatyard?

    Against the Current (2009)

  • The boatyard is mine.

    2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

  • And the fact is, I want to get to the boatyard for a couple of hours tonight.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Though he was not at the boatyard when I arrived, he came in shortly after.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • How come I had to come home after school instead of going to the boatyard?

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Should be on his way home from the boatyard.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • All you need to do is pick it up and deliver it to my boatyard in Causeway Bay.

    Double Impact (1991)

  • "My dad owns a boatyard in Tasmania," she said.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • He's got himself some day work up at the boatyard.

    Serenity (2019)

  • The workers at the boatyard are busy repairing boats before the summer season.

Synonyms

shipyard
vsboatyard
35 3.2

A place where ships are built or repaired

is for smaller watercraft rather than large vessels
dockyard
vsboatyard
2 4.4

A place by the water where people build and fix ships

is often not by the water and can include storage

How Big

shipyard
35 3.2
marina
70 3.7
boatyard
6 4.1
boathouse
23 2.7

Surface Forms

boatyard singular
boatyards plural

Morphology

boatyard = boat + yard (transparent) = boat + yard

The meaning is a direct, expected combination of 'boat' + 'yard' meaning an area where boats are kept or worked on.

Etymology

The word boatyard is just the two simple words boat and yard. A yard means 'an open area for working on or keeping things', as in backyard or shipyard, so a boatyard is a place to build, repair, or store boats.