It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in.
a dock that has a constant level of water in which a vessel floats
Hyphenation
a dock that has a con·stant lev·el of wa·ter in which a ves·sel floats
Turkish pronunciation
ı däk dhıt hız ı känstınt levıl ıv wôtır în hwîç ı vesıl flōts