Definition of dock

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Dock (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages..

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Bloodwort :: Bloodwort (n.) A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing..
Robin :: Robin (n.) A small European singing bird (Erythacus rubecula), having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock..
Grain :: Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4..
Burr :: Burr (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs..
Table :: Table (v. t.) To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one..
Daddock :: Daddock (n.) The rotten body of a tree.
Padow :: Padow (n.) A paddock, or toad..
Bodock :: Bodock (n.) The Osage orange.
Basin :: Basin (n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay..
Spatter-dock :: Spatter-dock (n.) The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena).
Dock-cress :: Dock-cress (n.) Nipplewort.
Dock :: Dock (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail..
Ochreated :: Ochreated (a.) Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass..
Dock :: Dock (n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe..
Dock :: Dock (v. t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse..
Docket :: Docket (n.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks..
Harlock :: Harlock (n.) Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock.
Haddock :: Haddock (n.) A marine food fish (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie..
Dry Dock :: Dry dock () See under Dock.
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