Definition of "dock"

dock¹

/dɒk/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural docks
1. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
  Quotations
  And vnder neath him his courageous ſteed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 352
2. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

dock²

/dɒk/

noun
plural docks
1. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
2. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
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  The Dock is about 1 inch thick, and two inches broad, like an Apothecaries Spatule. Of what length the whole, is uncertain, this being only part of it, though it looks as if cut off near the Buttock
  1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author
3. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
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  And on a Cuſhion ſtuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks.
  1665, Charles Cotton, Scarronnides
4. A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

dock³

/dɒk/

verb
third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked
1. (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
  Quotations
  The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., pages 58–59
2. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
3. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.

dock⁴

/dɒk/

noun
plural docks
1. (nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
  Quotations
  With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
  1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
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.
5. A section of a hotel or restaurant.
6. (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
7. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
8. An act of docking; joining two things together.
9. (theater) Short for scene-dock.
verb
third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked
1. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
  Quotations
  On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War. China may look askance at the US and North Korean militaries working together like this.
  29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes
2. To join two moving items.
  Quotations
  A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
  2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
3. (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
4. (intransitive, sex) To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
5. (transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
6. (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

dock⁵

/dɒk/

noun
plural docks
1. (law) Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.

dock⁶

/dɒk/

verb
third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked
1. (cooking) To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
  Quotations
  Pricking holes in the rolled-out pie dough allows the steam to escape while it's baking. Without this, the steam would puff up in bubbles and pockets throughout the crust, which would make some parts of the crust cook too quickly and also result in an uneven surface for your filling. Docking is simple. Just roll out your pie dough and lift it into the pan. After pressing it in and shaping the edge, prick it all over with a fork.
  11 July 2008, Emma Christensen, The Kitchn: How and When to Dock a Pie Crust

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