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Raredocking
The correct spelling is docking.
How to pronounce docking
verb
Say it like: Dok-ing
The correct spelling is docking. To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy. For example: "to dock an entail"
Usage Examples
“to dock an entail”
“I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.”
Meanings
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.
noun
- 1.The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
- 2.The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
- 3.The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
- 4.The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.
- 5.A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
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