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Uncommondock
The correct spelling is dock.
How to pronounce dock
/dɒk/
nounIPA: /dɒk/
Say it like: Dok
The correct spelling is dock. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in cur… For example: "to dock an entail"
Usage Examples
“to dock an entail”
“coffee dock”
“I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- 2.A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- 3.The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
- 4.The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
- 5.The buttocks or anus.
verb
- 1.To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
- 2.To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
- 3.To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- 4.To land at a harbour.
- 5.To join two moving items.
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