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docks

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/dɒks/ English

Definitions

noun

  1. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
  2. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

noun

  1. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
  2. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
  3. The buttocks or anus.
  4. A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

verb

  1. To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
  2. To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
  3. To cut off, bar, or destroy.“to dock an entail”

noun

  1. A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
  2. A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
  3. The body of water between two piers.
  4. The place of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.

verb

  1. To land at a harbour.
  2. To join two moving items.
  3. To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
  4. To place (an electronic device) in its dock.“I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.”

noun

  1. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.

verb

  1. To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.

noun

  1. A collection of docks, wharves, warehouses and offices

Related words

Synonyms

slipquaywharfsour grasssorreltailbobtailbobdockagedocking facilitywaterfrontdikesportspiersdykesbasinsbassinsberths

Associated

docktilburywharvesgrimsbyharbourswanseacardiffferries

Rhymes

paradoxfauxunorthodoxequinoxflummoxfoxboxidiot boxcoxlocks

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