dock : Idioms & Phrases

• a kind of floating dock which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers.

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• noun European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America
  Rumex obtusifolius; broad-leaved dock; bitter dock.
  

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• noun European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America
  Rumex obtusifolius; broad-leaved dock; bitter dock.
  

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• noun a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
  dock worker; lumper; dockhand; loader; stevedore; dockworker; docker; longshoreman.
  

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Dock"-cress` noun

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1. (Bot.) Nipplewort.

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• noun a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
  dock worker; lumper; dockhand; loader; stevedore; dockworker; docker; longshoreman.
  

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• noun 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
  dock; dockage.
  
  • the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late

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• noun a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock
  dockage.
  

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• noun a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline
  drydock; dry dock.
  

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• a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls and floor, often of masonry and communicating with deep water, but having appliances for excluding it; used in constructing or repairing ships. The name includes structures used for the examination, repairing, or building of vessels, as graving docks, floating docks, hydraulic docks, etc.

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• verb maneuver (a ship) into a drydock
  drydock.
  

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• noun dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised
  floating dock.
  

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• a dock which is made to become buoyant, and, by floating, to lift a vessel out of water.

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• noun dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised
  floating dock.
  

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• noun a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline
  drydock; dry dock.
  

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• a dock for holding a ship for graving or cleaning the bottom, etc.

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• a dock in which a vessel is raised clear of the water by hydraulic presses.

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• noun a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded
  dock.
  

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• a dock connected with which are naval stores, materials, and all conveniences for the construction and repair of ships.

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• noun stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns
  Parthenium integrifolium; wild quinine; American feverfew.
  

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• (Bot.), a coarse composite plant (Silphium terebinthaceum) with large rough leaves and yellow flowers, found in the Western prairies.

Webster 1913

• . See under Dock.

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• a form of floating dock made in separate sections or caissons.

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• a dock having a sloping floor that extends from deep water to above high-water mark, and upon which is a railway on which runs a cradle carrying the ship.

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• noun European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
  Rumex acetosa; garden sorrel.
  

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• (Bot.), sorrel.

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Spat`ter-dock` noun

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1. (Bot.) The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena).

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• (Bot.), the common mullein.

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Wa"ter dock`

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1. (Bot.) A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.

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• etc. See under Blanket, Dock, etc.

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• a dock where the water is shut in, and kept at a given level, to facilitate the loading and unloading of ships; also sometimes used as a place of safety; a basin.

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• noun European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America
  Rumex obtusifolius; broad-leaved dock; bitter dock.
  

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• . (Bot.) See the Note under Dock.

Webster 1913