Definition of dock

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Dock (n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting..

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Burr :: Burr (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs..
Patience :: Patience (n.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb..
Pomelo :: Pomelo (n.) A variety of shaddock, called also grape fruit..
Spelding :: Spelding (n.) A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron.
Dockage :: Dockage (n.) A charge for the use of a dock.
Bloodwort :: Bloodwort (n.) A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing..
Dock :: Dock (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail..
Ruddock :: Ruddock (n.) A piece of gold money; -- probably because the gold of coins was often reddened by copper alloy. Called also red ruddock, and golden ruddock..
Docket :: Docket (v. t.) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial..
Docket :: Docket (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed..
Nipplewort :: Nipplewort (n.) A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress..
Dry Dock :: Dry dock () See under Dock.
Parrock :: Parrock (n.) A croft, or small field; a paddock..
Docket :: Docket (v. t.) To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods..
Work :: Work (n.) Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works..
Dock :: Dock (v. t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse..
Pompelmous :: Pompelmous (n.) A shaddock, esp. one of large size..
Dogget :: Dogget (n.) Docket. See Docket.
Burdock :: Burdock (n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals..
Apron :: Apron (n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut..
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