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.
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91 Near the draw dock some longshoremen had heaped it up and set light to it, to clear the area.
92 He was wearing a flat cap, a suit and a choker, and there were dock gates in the background.
93 There were only a few weeks now before she went into dry dock.
94 Water came in overland through large below-surface loading dock doors on the northwest corner of the building.
95 I am satisfied that this reference did not emanate from anyone representing the ports authority or the dock company.
96 The dock company went into occupation on 1 January 1984 and thereafter commenced operations.
97 A revolutionary outburst from the dock may have contributed to his three-year sentence.
98 It decided to do this through the dock company, a wholly owned subsidiary which was incorporated on 24 March 1982.
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99 Cyril sat on the dock and stared out over the water.
100 Paul Menzies left the dock and walked slowly over to the witness box.
101 The first forcibly draws the reader's attention to the changing costing scene that has placed traditional costing systems in the dock.
102 They passed into the fitful darkness of the dock cavern.
103 By 1875, 55 percent of all coal shipped to London was unloaded at the Victoria Dock.
104 Kolymba is believed to be a Minoan dock basin[sentencedict.com], and it may be that Minoan ships were built and repaired here.
105 Smith sat sobbing and shaking in the dock with a prison officer between her and her father as the case was heard.
106 Like they got rid of that dry dock down there.
107 There is also a marina yacht club and a licensed restaurant barge at South Dock.
108 Benny ran through the tunnels, making for the dock, but soon she passed a familiar doorway.
109 Wearing open-neck, light blue-striped shirts, the pair stood alongside each other in the dock.
110 Chris arranged for a lorry to load 12 tons of hickory wood billets in bundles at Gladstone Dock, starting at 8am.
111 She will dock in Cherbourg later on June 5 and veterans will be taken to commemorative services on June 6.
112 Robin Smith goes into the dock - and so does Kevan James, less so.
113 Hugh Fraser predictably had been most anxious to join his friend and colleague in the dock.
114 He stopped the seamen and dock workers joining the strike, but he did not take too hard a line.
115 A nearly full complement of 673 passengers cast off from the city dock this day, dark with continuous rain.
116 When dusk had come, Wade put his shovel aside and moved down the slope to the dock.
117 But when magistrates told her she'd be jailed for three months, she collapsed in the dock.
118 The dock company could not operate a commercial port at the dockyard without disturbing nearby residents.
119 It stands on the open quay, right on the Bremerhaven dock front.
120 Now we were hard put to find a grubby corner of the upper dock in which to berth Venturous.