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noun

docking n.

1.

(Naut.) A act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes or anchors.

Synonyms: mooring, tying up, dropping anchor.

2.

(Astronautics) The coming together and joining of two space vehicles. The joining usually is accomplished by bringing special connecting devices, the docking ports, into contact, and fastening the ships together by clamping devices. The docking ports are often fitted so as to allow a passage to be opened between the two space vehciles, and thus to permit transfer of materials or personnel between them.

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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Etymology of 'Docking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Docking" Quotes from Famous Books

... and madness have increased (statistically) to an appalling extent. The opponents of the little finger theory would therefore be pretty sure to allege that the amputations were spreading cancer and lunacy. The vaccination controversy is full of such contentions. So is the controversy as to the docking of horses' tails and the cropping of dogs' ears. So is the less widely known controversy as to circumcision and the declaring certain kinds of flesh unclean by the Jews. To advertize any remedy or operation, you have only to pick out all the most reassuring advances made by civilization, ...

— The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • George Bernard Shaw

... increase, to which the country is committed, should, for a time, take the form of increased facilities commensurate with the increase of our naval vessels. It is an unfortunate fact that there is only one dock on the Pacific Coast capable of docking our largest ships, and only one on the Atlantic Coast, and that the latter has for the last six or seven months been under repair and therefore incapable of use. Immediate steps should be taken ...

— Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. • William McKinley

... there. She dared not leave the boat yet; but she could change her position now. She crawled half out from under the docking, and lay with her head on the sailcloth. It was exquisite relief! They could not come back along the wharf without her hearing them, and she could retreat under the decking again in ...

— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard

... up. The judge went back to the court-room so indignant he sentenced a prisoner for twenty years, when the law only allowed him to give ten. The supervisors, they took their spite out by docking the school-teachers half a day and cutting off the cranberry sauce from the turkey dinner at the jail. General Trumps got drunk as an owl. The City Councils held an adjourned meeting and raised the water rent on Slocum, and Jenkins' nigger burst in the head ...

— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)

... for supper. Cousin Giles said everything tasted better up here, perhaps it was the clear salt water. There were so many fresh ponds and streams around Boston. But there were big plans for drainage and for docking out. Then Elizabeth ...

— A Little Girl in Old Salem • Amanda Minnie Douglas

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