Definition of dock

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Dock (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail..

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Pomelo :: Pomelo (n.) A variety of shaddock, called also grape fruit..
Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins..
Cobwork :: Cobwork (a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater..
Heaver :: Heaver (n.) One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver..
Docket :: Docket (n.) A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.
Rizzar :: Rizzar (v. t.) To dry in the sun; as, rizzared haddock..
Basin :: Basin (n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay..
Grain :: Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4..
Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe..
Polygonaceous :: Polygonaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous plants (Polygonaceae), of which the knotweeds (species of Polygonum) are the type, and which includes also the docks (Rumex), the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape (Coccoloba), and several other genera..
Finnan Haddie :: Finnan haddie () Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. finan), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock..
Docquet :: Docquet (n. & v.) See Docket.
Cut :: Cut (v. t.) To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails..
Docket :: Docket (v. t.) To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods..
Dock :: 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..
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..
Clotbur :: Clotbur (n.) The burdock.
Water Can :: Water can () Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock..
Harlock :: Harlock (n.) Probably a corruption either of charlock or hardock.
Docketed :: Docketed (imp. & p. p.) of Docke.
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