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Dock   /dɑk/   Listen
noun
Dock  n.  (Bot.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination. Note: Yellow dock is Rumex crispus, with smooth curly leaves and yellow root, which that of other species is used medicinally as an astringent and tonic.


Dock  n.  
1.
The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting.
2.
A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.


Dock  n.  
1.
An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.
2.
The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.
3.
The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.
Balance dock, a kind of floating dock which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers.
Dry dock, a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls and floor, often of masonry and communicating with deep water, but having appliances for excluding it; used in constructing or repairing ships. The name includes structures used for the examination, repairing, or building of vessels, as graving docks, floating docks, hydraulic docks, etc.
Floating dock, a dock which is made to become buoyant, and, by floating, to lift a vessel out of water.
Graving dock, a dock for holding a ship for graving or cleaning the bottom, etc.
Hydraulic dock, a dock in which a vessel is raised clear of the water by hydraulic presses.
Naval dock, a dock connected with which are naval stores, materials, and all conveniences for the construction and repair of ships.
Sectional dock, a form of floating dock made in separate sections or caissons.
Slip dock, a dock having a sloping floor that extends from deep water to above high-water mark, and upon which is a railway on which runs a cradle carrying the ship.
Wet dock, a dock where the water is shut in, and kept at a given level, to facilitate the loading and unloading of ships; also sometimes used as a place of safety; a basin.


verb
Dock  v. t.  (past & past part. docked; pres. part. docking)  
1.
To cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse. "His top was docked like a priest biforn."
2.
To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
3.
To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.


Dock  v. t.  To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.





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"Dock" Quotes from Famous Books



... flashes of light in his new business venture. For this stock exchange world in which he now found himself, primitive as it would seem to-day, was most fascinating to Cowperwood. The room that he went to in Third Street, at Dock, where the brokers or their agents and clerks gathered one hundred and fifty strong, was nothing to speak of artistically—a square chamber sixty by sixty, reaching from the second floor to the roof of a four-story building; but it was striking to him. The windows were ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... be moving on?" Jan asked at length. There was a gate beside the road just there, with a small triangle of green before it, and a granite roller half-buried in dock-leaves. Without answering, the woman seated herself on this, and pulling a handful of the leaves, ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... the nights long, and the voyage hazardous, go to sea no more, but lie by, the ships are unrigged, the sails, etc., carried ashore, the top-masts struck, and they ride moored in the river, under the advantages and security of sound ground, and a high woody shore, where they lie as safe as in a wet dock; and it was a very agreeable sight to see, perhaps two hundred sail of ships, of all sizes, lie in that posture every winter. All this while, which was usually from Michaelmas to Lady Day, the masters ...
— Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 • Daniel Defoe
... times, fifty times. From fifty different beds after the sowing of the powder, you obtain the same crop. What will be your response to the question proposed to you? 'I am not in a condition,' you would say, 'to affirm that every grain of the powder is a dock-seed, or a thistle-seed; but I am in a condition to affirm that both dock and thistle-seeds form, at all events, part of the powder.' Supposing a succession of such powders to be placed in your hands with grains becoming gradually smaller, ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... acreage of several dock-basins crammed, gunwale to gunwale, with brown and umber and ochre and rust-red steam-trawlers, tugs, harbour-boats, and yachts once clean and respectable, now dirty and happy. Throw in fish-steamers, surprise-packets of unknown lines and indescribable ...
— Sea Warfare • Rudyard Kipling


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