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[[t]dɒk[/t]]

n.

1) navig. a landing pier

2) navig. the space or waterway between two piers or wharves, as for receiving a ship while in port

3) navig. such a waterway, enclosed or open, together with the surrounding piers, wharves, etc

4) navig. naut.

dry dock

5) a platform for loading and unloading trucks, railway freight cars, etc

6) navig. naut. to bring (a ship or boat) into a dock; lay up in a dock

7) navig. naut. to place in dry dock, as for repairs or painting

8) ars to join (an orbiting space vehicle) with another spacecraft or with a space station

9) navig. to come or go into a dock

10) ars (of two space vehicles) to join together while in orbit

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Etymology: 1505–15; < MD doc(ke) II

dock

[[t]dɒk[/t]] n.

1) the solid or fleshy part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair

2) the part of a tail left after cutting or clipping

3) to cut off the end of; cut short:

to dock a tail[/ex]

4) to cut short the tail of

5) to deduct a part from (wages)

6) to deduct from the wages of, usu. as a punishment

7) to deprive of something regularly enjoyed:

The campers were docked for disobeying their counselor[/ex]

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Etymology: 1300–50; ME dok, OE -docca, in fingirdoccana (gen. pl.) finger muscles; c. Fris dok, LG docke bundle, MHG tocke bundle, sheaf III

dock

[[t]dɒk[/t]] n.

the place in a courtroom where a prisoner is placed during trial

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Etymology: 1580–90; perh. < D dok (dial. sense) cage, pen, hutch IV

dock

[[t]dɒk[/t]] n.

pln any of various weedy plants of the genus Rumex, buckwheat family, having a long taproot and clusters of small flowers

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Etymology: bef. 1000; ME dokke, OE docce; c. MD docke, MHG tocke