docked

Verb (1)

dock (third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked)

1. (transitive) 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...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59
2. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
   • Her wages were docked by ten dollars.
3. (informal, transitive) To reduce the wages of (a person).
   • They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase.
4. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
   • to dock an entail
5. (transitive) To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
   • Pricking holes in the rolled-out pie dough allows the steam to escape while it's baking. Without this, the steam would puff up in bubbles and pockets throughout the crust, which would make some parts of the crust cook too quickly and also result in an uneven surface for your filling. Docking is...Emma Christensen (11 July 2008), “How and When to Dock a Pie Crust”, in The Kitchn

Verb (2)

dock (third-person singular simple present docks, present participle docking, simple past and past participle docked)

1. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
   • On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War. China may look askance at the US and North Korean militaries working together like this.29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumeshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17213948

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