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.
And vnder neath him his courageous ſteed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks […]
A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
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
The buttocks or anus.
And on a Cuſhion ſtuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks.
A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
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.
Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
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.
A male given name or nickname.
A surname.
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To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
Her wages were docked by ten dollars.
To land at a harbour.
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.