dock

Meaning

Noun

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.
2. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

Verb

1. To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
2. To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
3. (informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
4. To cut off, bar, or destroy.

Verb

1. To land at a harbour.
2. To join two moving items.
3. To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
4. 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. To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
6. To place (an electronic device) in its dock.

Verb

To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɒk/

Etymology

From Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)).