DOCKS

Definition

1. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
2. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

1. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
2. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
3. The buttocks or anus.

1. To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
2. To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
3. To cut off, bar, or destroy.
   “to dock an entail”

1. A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
2. A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
3. The body of water between two piers.

1. To land at a harbour.
2. To join two moving items.
3. To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.

1. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.

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

1. A collection of docks, wharves, warehouses and offices

Source: Wiktionary

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