Synonym: anchor, clip, cut off, moor, tie. Similar words: doctor, document, doctrine, documentary, sock, shock, knock, stock. Meaning: [dɒk] 
n. 1. an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial 2. any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine 3. a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats 4. a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded 5. landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out 6. the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair 7. a short or shortened tail of certain animals. v. 1. come into dock 2. deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty 3. deduct from someone's wages 4. remove or shorten the tail of an animal 5. haul into a dock.
n. 1. an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial 2. any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine 3. a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats 4. a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded 5. landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out 6. the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair 7. a short or shortened tail of certain animals. v. 1. come into dock 2. deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty 3. deduct from someone's wages 4. remove or shorten the tail of an animal 5. haul into a dock. 
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61 Each took the oath and then gave almost identical evidence, one after the other condemning the prisoners in the dock.
62 It owes its second chance of life to an alert dock worker.
63 Toward evening, the weather turned and, as they approached the dock, the sky was gray and misty.
64 Eventually we came to an ancient tree-lined canal with a long-tailed water taxi parked at a dock.
65 Powergen got the go-ahead for the ￡40m Gladstone Dock facility earlier this year.
66 The Bidston Dock cranes have been a Birkenhead landmark for many years.
67 But more alarmingly, a planned fraud trial was scrapped because Burke was deemed mentally unfit to appear in the dock.
68 It was low tide at St Catherine's Dock, and the Thames was about to meet its match.
68 Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
69 Streets which once throbbed with dock and factory workers and their families were now deserted.
70 Trent sprinted up the dock and spotted the President's granddaughter.
71 I was a member of the thousand-voice choir that sang at the opening of the Gladstone Dock in April, 1913.
72 After entering the basin she had to negotiate the lock, a narrow channel which connected the basin to the dock proper.
73 So many defendants have been squeezed into court that extra benches were needed to make one large dock.
74 Mr Risbridger said they planned to invest and upgrade dock facilities by developing riverside berths capable of handling 8,000 tonnes.
75 Rubbing a dock leaf on a nettle sting is said to get rid of the pain.
76 The project includes a railway line, a new town and a 12,000 tonnes per year coal dock at Prince Rupert.
77 They bustled to and fro across the dock and swarmed on and off the ships.
78 It is now ready to be moved to a dry dock.
79 Over 2,000 dock workers immediately walked out despite the judgment and despite the advice given by their leaders not to do so.
80 Builders' Merchants. General cargo continued to flow through the port but there was a gradual decline in dock activity.
81 On our walk back to the ferry dock that afternoon we make one last detour to the beach.
82 In my view the dock company is not entitled to any statutory immunities which may attach to the port authority.
83 Moving to the windows overlooking the dock, he watched his men work, a look of dismay on his face.
84 The charge proved to be a hoax, but growers lost a fortune as their produce rotted on the dock.
85 About a dozen mallard ducks were sleeping on the sand or quacking in a subdued manner under the dock.
86 The firm told the dock company to deal with the timber according to the instructions of a clerk of the firm.
87 Trent spied the President and his granddaughter on the end of the dock below the President's beach house.
88 Chaucer worked in the first Customs House, and Pepys saw the building of the first wet dock at Blackwall.
89 The company plans to dock the officers' pay and is threatening disciplinary action.
90 Although occasionally an older vessel may substitute for one in dry dock, many venerable craft have been pensioned off.