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English
English : of uncertain derivation; possibly from Middle English doke ‘duck’ (see Duck).Norwegian : habitational name from a farm named Dokk, from Old Norse d{o,}kk ‘hollow’, ‘depression’.Possibly an altered form of German Docke, a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in the cloth trade, from Middle Low German dÅk ‘fabric’.
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English : variant of Doggett.
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English : habitational name from Dockham in Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire, named in Old English with docce ‘dock’ (the plant) + hamm ‘enclosure’, ‘water meadow’. This surname has died out in England.
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English and Irish : variant of Dockery.
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English and Irish : variant of Dockery.
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English : habitational name from any of several places called Dockray, of which there are four examples in Cumbria. A possible origin of the place name is Old Norse d{o,}kk ‘hollow’, ‘valley’ + vrá ‘isolated place’; the first element is, however, more likely to be Old English docce ‘dock’ (the plant).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dochraidh ‘descendant of Dochradh’, a personal name that is a variant of Dochartach (see Doherty).
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v. t.
To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
v. t.
to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.
n.
An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard.
v. t.
To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
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To take out of dock; as, to undock a ship.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Docket
v. t.
To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.
v. t.
To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.
v. t.
To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.
n.
A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock (Rumex crispus) and identical with chrysophanic acid.
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The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.
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A charge for the use of a dock.
v. t.
To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Dock
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Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
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of Docket
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of Dock
v. t.
To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.