Definitions for docks

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docks dock

Spelling: [dok]

IPA: /dɒk/

Docks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in docks (cdkos).

Definitions for docks

noun

1. a landing pier.
2. the space or waterway between two piers or wharves, as for receiving a ship while in port.
3. such a waterway, enclosed or open, together with the surrounding piers, wharves, etc.
4. dry dock.
5. a platform for loading and unloading trucks, railway freight cars, etc.
6. an airplane hangar or repair shed.
7. Also called scene dock. a place in a theater near the stage or beneath the floor of the stage for the storage of scenery.
8. the solid or fleshy part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair.
9. the part of a tail left after cutting or clipping.
10. the place in a courtroom where a prisoner is placed during trial.
11. any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
12. any of various other plants, mostly coarse weeds.

Idioms

1. in the dock, being tried in a court, especially a criminal court; on trial.

verb (used with object)

1. to bring (a ship or boat) into a dock; lay up in a dock.
2. to place in dry dock, as for repairs, cleaning, or painting.
3. to join (a space vehicle) with another or with a space station in outer space.
4. to cut off the end of; cut short:
5. to cut short the tail of:
6. to deduct from the wages of, usually as a punishment:
7. to deduct from (wages):

verb (used without object)

1. to come or go into a dock or dry dock.
2. (of two space vehicles) to join together in outer space.

Origin of docks

1505-15; Middle Dutch doc(ke)

Examples for docks

Once the ships that rescued them dock at port, they disembark.

It even explained why he had expected Malone to place him in charge of the dock.

As he was taken down from the dock to be driven to prison he was downcast, as anyone would be who was publicly sacrificed.

Purplish shadows had already begun to dim the tug and dock and ocean.

I think sometimes that I see you yourself in the dock, Master Helstrop.

Then do you want to go back and stay on the dock and starve?

We have a beautiful house where in the morning you can sit on the dock and see the sun rise and at night you watch the sun set.

Lupher says the Carnival Magic tried to land in Cozumel, but that the Mexican authorities blocked them from the dock.

And this capsule will be able to dock itself, without needing the ISS to grab ahold and guide it in.

I reckon that if dock had stayed in Chicago a week he'd have had everybody crazy.