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dockings

dockings is the plural of docking.

Meaning of docking

Noun

docking (countable and uncountable, plural dockings)

  1. The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
  2. The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
  3. The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
  4. (slang) A sex act where two partners are co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
    • From their discussions, the participants mentioned informational and stimulating variations. For touching, one could always use feather dusters, a massage, a tongue in the ear, spooning and sucking toes (known in New York City as "shrimping). There's also "docking" for foreskinned men who can...1986 December 14, E. G. Martin, “Hot & Healthy: A Second Coming Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 7
  5. (molecular biology) A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
  6. The pricking of many small holes into doughs and pastry.

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Proper noun capitalized: Dockings

Dockings

  1. (plural) plural of Docking

Phrases with dockings

Questions about dockings

What is dockings the plural of?
Dockings is the plural of docking.
What part of speech is dockings?
Dockings is a proper noun.

Words near dockings in the dictionary

  1. docking
  2. docking port
  3. docking ports
  4. docking station
  5. docking stations
  6. dockings
  7. Dockins
  8. Dockinses
  9. dockisation
  10. dockise
  11. dockised

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