Meaning & use
Graving
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The act of cleaning, scraping, and repairing the underwater hull of a ship, traditionally performed in a dry dock; also, the gerund of "grave," meaning to engrave or carve.
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The vessel was taken into the graving dock for its annual hull inspection.
Medieval artisans were skilled in the graving of intricate designs onto silver.
A note on using this word
A "graving dock" is another name for a dry dock, so called because ships were once cleaned ("graved") of barnacles and grime while out of the water.
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