How to pronounce“dock”in English
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Definitions of “dock”
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.
“And vnder neath him his courageous ſteed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks […]”
A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
“The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.”
To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
“Her wages were docked by ten dollars.”
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