laid-up

Owners are also seeking a rate that would make it worthwhile for them bringing a ship out of its laid-up anchorage.

“There, just past the buoy. A single laid-up fish. Facing us.”

Storing and maintaining Britain's 19 laid-up nuclear submarines has cost taxpayers nearly £16m over the last five years, it has emerged.

Mam’ Grace was his laid-up wife who passed the days in a hospital bed squeezed into their former den, looking out through a large picture window that faced the street, watching the world she was leaving literally pass her by.

Weath′er-board, the windward side of a ship: a plank in the port of a laid-up vessel placed so as to keep off rain, without preventing air to circulate.—v.t. to fit with such planks.—n.