Dock

Quick meaning: Dock is a noun meaning A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

Meaning

A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

More Meanings

1. The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
2. A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
3. (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
4. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
5. (transitive, informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
6. 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.
7. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.

Example Sentences

to dock an entail

Her wages were docked by ten dollars.

They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase.

And on a Cuſhion ſtuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks.

Word Forms

• docks
• docking
• docked

Synonyms for dock

Depending on context, synonyms include dockyard, pier, quay, wharf, harbor, harbour.

Antonyms for dock

Common opposites include undock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sorrel, tail, bobtail, wharf, bob, dockage.

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