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docken Sc. and north. dial.|ˈdɒk(ə)n|
Also 5 doken, -an, 8 dockan, 9 docking.
[app. repr. OE. doccan, early ME. *dokken, pl. and inflected form of docce, dock n.1]
= dock n.1 1.
1423Jas. I Kingis Q. cix, Als like ȝe bene, as..doken to the fresche dayesye. 1483Cath. Angl. 103/1 A Dokan, paradilla. 1721Kelly Scot. Prov. 184 (Jam.), ‘I wo'd be very loth And scant of cloth, To sole my hose with dockans.’ The return of a haughty maid to them that tell her of an unworthy suitor. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 21 Wad ye compare ye'r sell to me, A docken till a tansie? 1863Robson Bards of Tyne 138 Amang these green dockings.
b. attrib. Of or like a dock-leaf; dock-like.
1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xliv. 245 His great red docken ears. |