dock

nounwaterfront

verbland on the waterfront

Word Origin & History

"ship's berth," late 15c., from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German docke, perhaps ultimately (via Late Latin *ductia "aqueduct") from Latin ducere "to lead" (see duke (n.)); or possibly from a Scandinavian word for "low ground" (cf. Norwegian dokk "hollow, low ground"). Original sense perhaps "furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank." As a verb from 1510s. Related: Docked; docking.

Example Sentences for dock

I reckon that if Dock had stayed in Chicago a week he'd have had everybody crazy.

I think sometimes that I see you yourself in the dock, Master Helstrop.

Then do you want to go back and stay on the dock and starve?

It even explained why he had expected Malone to place him in charge of the dock.

Purplish shadows had already begun to dim the tug and dock and ocean.

The whole face of the sea around the dock broke into a sort of sputtering.

Only when on board did the lads appreciate the enormous size of the dock.

Then some of the men on top of the dock's side began yelling.

The dock is worth a million pounds, about five million dollars.

How about hitching that schooner to the dock and towing her?

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