English

Proper noun

Dock

1. (US, rare, dated) A male given name or nickname.

German

Etymology

Via German Low German from Middle Low German docke. Possibly borrowed from Middle English dock; this form is attested a few decades earlier and the earliest Low German attestation refers to the harbours of London.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔk/

Noun

Dock n ‎(genitive Docks, plural Docks)

1. dock (a construction in which ships are repaired)

Declension

Derived terms

• Schwimmdock
• Trockendock

English

Noun

dock ‎(plural docks)

1. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially the common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xi:

     And vnder neath him his courageous steed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks [...].

2. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

Translations

References

1. ↑ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, s.v. “*đukkōn” (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 78.
2. ↑ William Morris, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, coll. edn., s.v. “dock⁴” (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979), 387; Calvert Watkins, ed., “Indo-European Roots”, Appendix, AHD, s.v. “dheu-¹”, 1513.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dok, from Old English *docce, *docca (as in fingirdoccana ‎(“finger muscles”, genitive plural)), from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare West Frisian dok ‎(“bunch, ball (twine)”), Low German Dokke ‎(“bundle of straw”), Icelandic dokkur ‎(“stumpy tail”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeu-k- ‎(“to spin, shake”) (compare Lithuanian dvė̃kti ‎(“to breathe, wheeze”), dvãkas ‎(“breath”), Albanian dak ‎(“big ram”), Sanskrit धुक्षति ‎(dhukṣati, “to blow”)).^[1]

Noun

dock ‎(plural docks)

1. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
2. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.

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3. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
4. A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an 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 two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

2. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
3. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.

   to dock an entail‎

Translations

References

1. ↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, s.v. “Docke” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005).

Etymology 3

From Middle English dock ‎(“mud channel”), from Middle Dutch docke ‎(“channel”) (modern dok ‎(“lock (canal)”)), from Old Italian doccia ‎(“conduit, canal”) or Medieval Latin ducta, ductus. More at douche and duct.^[1]

Noun

dock ‎(plural docks)

1. A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:

     With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.

2. The body of water between two piers.
3. A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
4. A section of a hotel or restaurant.

   coffee dock‎

5. (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
6. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
7. An act of docking; joining two things together.

Synonyms

• (body of water between piers): slip
• (structure for loading and unloading vessels): wharf, quay

Hypernyms

• (structure at shore to which vessel is secured): mooring, moorage

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
   • 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes

     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.

2. To join two moving items.
   • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

     A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

3. (transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.

Translations

References

1. ↑ Marlies Philippa et al., eds., Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands, A-Z, s.v. “dok” (Amsterdam UP, 3 Dec. 2009).

Etymology 4

Originally criminal slang; from or akin to Dutch (Flemish) dok ‎(“cage, hutch”).

Noun

dock ‎(plural docks)

1. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.

Translations

Related terms

• in the dock

Etymology 5

Verb

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

1. (cooking) To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.^[1]
   • 11 July 2008, Emma Christensen, The Kitchn: How and When to Dock a Pie Crust

     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 simple. Just roll out your pie dough and lift it into the pan. After pressing it in and shaping the edge, prick it all over with a fork.

References

1. ↑ dock, v.³ Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required). Retrieved: 2015-10-03.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish doch, dogh, dog, thoch, thok, tog, from Middle Low German doch, from Old Saxon thōh‚ from Proto-Germanic *þauh. Replaced native Old Swedish þo, from Old Norse þó.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔkː/

Adverb

dock

1. though, however, still, nevertheless

   Om jag än måste dö med dig, så skall jag dock förvisso icke förneka dig.

   Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee (Matthew 26:35)

   Dock, natt skall icke förbliva där nu ångest råder.

   Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her vexation (Isaiah 9:1)

   Man river åt sig till höger och förbliver dock hungrig, man tager för sig till vänster och bliver dock ej mätt

   And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied (Isaiah 9:20)