Definition of "dock"
- noun
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially the common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- verb
To cut off a section of an animal's tail.
To reduce (wages); to deduct.
To land at a harbour.
To join two moving items.
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