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/dˈɑkɪŋ/ Listen

noun

docking n.

(Naut.) A act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes or anchors.

Synonyms: mooring, tying up, dropping anchor.

(Astronautics) The coming together and joining of two space vehicles. The joining usually is accomplished by bringing special connecting devices, the docking ports, into contact, and fastening the ships together by clamping devices. The docking ports are often fitted so as to allow a passage to be opened between the two space vehciles, and thus to permit transfer of materials or personnel between them.

verb

Dock v. t. (past & past part. docked; pres. part. docking)

To cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse. "His top was docked like a priest biforn."

To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.

To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.

Dock v. t. To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.

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Etymology of 'Docking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Docking" Quotes from Famous Books

... all reported cases of cruel treatment on the part of employers and their managers to their women and children employees, in withholding money due, in imposing fines, or in docking wages without ...

— Women Wage-Earners - Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future • Helen Campbell

... Spraggins in that private life lived at odd moments even by domestic servants. His mother had only appeared to him, as it were in dreams, smelling delicious, smoothing his forehead just before he fell asleep, and sometimes docking his hair, of a golden brown colour. When he cut his head open against the nursery fender she was there to be bled over; and when he had nightmare she would sit on his bed and cuddle his head against her neck. She was precious but remote, because "Da" was so near, and there is ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy