dock
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
Noun 4 meanings
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
Verb 4 meanings
To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
“Her wages were docked by ten dollars.”
To reduce the wages of (a person).
“They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase.”
To cut off, bar, or destroy.
“to dock an entail”
Etymology
From Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)).
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DOCK at a glance
DOCK has 4 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (D 2 + O 1 + C 3 + K 5) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,105 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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