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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121 The floorboards hadn't snapped, as I'd originally thought: they'd gone down into the dock with Harry.
122 The underground complex had been built in summer, the construction teams working in three shifts round the dock.
123 Al Tingley is one fisherman who puts up his boat for the winter and works the fuel dock in the cold months.
124 Steers's dock laid the foundation of Liverpool's prosperity as a seaport.
125 The team hired a massive floating platform which was craned in separate segments into the dock.
126 She used the oars to pull out into the deep water beyond the dock.
127 The dock of a criminal court was a long way from the line ups Guppy is used to.
128 At dock, the operation would be supported with a Westernthemed entertainment complex and a 300-room hotel.
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129 I do not find the dock company has operated or operates the port other than as a normal commercial undertaking.
130 Gerry's ship had been in the Albert Dock and they had just finished papering the front bedroom.
131 There was a reason why they had foregone the privilege of having a singing canary in the dock.
132 His dock was strewn with beer cans, oil drums, fishing nets.
133 It was even possible to scent resin oozing from the hot wood of a dock, the air of warmth and freedom.
134 The complex also boasted a dock on the Hudson River.
135 The vehicle can then rendezvous and dock with the space station with little further expenditure of fuel.
136 The submersible rose higher in the dock, the overflowing sea rushing like a tide over their boots.
137 Opposition by burghers, who feared for the fishing, ensured that Plymouth Dock, later Devonport, was later chosen instead.
138 Crossly[sentencedict.com], he came out of the bushes and searched around for a dock leaf.
139 Security was tight as the two teenage boys, two men and two women stepped into the dock.
140 Steers was granted the freedom of the borough of Liverpool in 1713 and established a flourishing anchor smithy near the dock.
141 The three older defendants stood in the dock flanked by police officers.
142 Stultz headed back to their mooring, a few hundred yards east of the Trepassey town dock.
143 She looked tiny, sitting between two female staff from Rampton maximum security hospital in the middle of the large dock.
144 When they appeared in the dock they constituted the largest number of people ever to appear stark naked in a court room.
145 The dock company's estimate of heavy goods vehicle traffic has proved remarkably accurate.
146 We got a call to a pub - near the Dock Road.
147 It is Pop Judgement Day, with every group in history dragged into the dock to justify their past existence.
148 Cyril sat on the dock and took a long puff.
149 Harley would have them jump ship just as it's pulling into the dock.
150 In the dock at Craigavon Crown Court was Richard Ellis who denies the murder.