'Navy yard' definitions:
Definition of 'navy yard'
From: WordNet
noun
A military shipyard [syn: navy yard, naval shipyard]
Definition of 'Navy yard'
From: GCIDE
- Navy \Na"vy\; n.; pl. Navies. [ OF. navie, fr. L. navis ship. See Nave of a church.]
- 1. A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company. "The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir." --1 kings x. 11. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The whole of the war vessels belonging to a nation or ruler, considered collectively; as, the navy of Italy. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The officers and men attached to the war vessels of a nation; as, he belongs to the navy. [1913 Webster]
- 4. same as navy blue. [PJC]
- Navy bean. see Bean.
- Navy yard, a place set apart as a shore station for the use of the navy. It often contains all the mechanical and other appliences for building and equipping war vessels and training their crews. [1913 Webster]