dockn.1
/dɒk/, U.S. /dɑk/ 1. The common name of various species of the genus Rumex (family Polygonaceæ), coarse weedy herbs with thickened rootstock, sheathing stipules, and panicled racemes of inconspicuous greenish flowers.
a. Without qualifying word usually the common dock ( R. obtusifolius), well known as the popular antidote for nettle-stings.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > dock and allies
red dockeOE
dockc1000
rhubarbc1390
docken1423
patience?a1425
round dock1526
Rumex1565
wild patience1578
bloody dock1597
monk's rhubarb1597
Welsh sorrel1640
butterdock1688
mountain rhapontic1728
mountain sorrel1753
Rheum1753
redshank1810
patience dock1816
fiddle-dock1823
canaigre1868
nettle-docken1891
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 218 Sume betan oþþe doccan on geswettum wine seoþað.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xciii. 984 Lappa..is þe name of alle maner dokkes; and beþ alle medicinal, for þey heleþ smytyng of scorpiouns.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 602/1 Perdilla, a dokke.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 121v We have the great kinde of Dock, which the vnlearned toke for Rebarbe.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvii. 680/2 Yet found no docke to rub out the smart.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 52 Hatefull Docks, rough Thistles, Keksyes, Burres. View more context for this quotation
1732 J. Swift Pastoral Dialogue in Misc. III. i. 36 Cut down the Dock, 'twill sprout again.
1879 ‘H. Stretton’ Through Needle's Eye I. 60 The grounds and gardens..were overgrown with nettles and docks.
b. With descriptive epithet: fiddle dock n. from the shape of the leaves, R. pulcher. golden dock n. R. maritimus. patience dock n. (or passions dock) R. patientia; also locally applied to Polygonum bistorta. red dock n. R. sanguineus. sharp dock n. (or sour dock) R. acetosa, sorrel. swamp dock n. R. verticillatus. water dock n. R. hydrolapathum. white dock n. R. salicifolius. yellow dock n. R. crispus. Many species were already distinguished in Old English.
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society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] > vigilante committee > member of vigilante band or committee > specific
white dockc1000
whitecap1887
witdoek1980
the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > corn thistle
sharp thistlec1050
sharp dockc1400
way thistle1597
corn-thistle1878
creeping thistle1884
cursed thistle1884
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > culinary herbs > edible sorrel
sour dockc1325
sharp dockc1400
acetose?a1425
sorrelc1440
sourock?a1505
green sauce1620
sour docken1697
dock-sorrel1886
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 132 Herb. xxxiv Wudu docce [MS. Harl. 5294 Sur docce]..Þas wyrte þe man lapatium & oðrum naman wudu docce nemneð.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 122 Þa fealwan doccan nær þa readan.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 304 Durham Gloss. Oxilapathum, scearpe docce.
c1400 Test. Love iii. ix. (1532) 360 The frute of the soure docke.
1483 Cath. Angl. 103/1 A redi Dok, lappacium.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. F.vijv In englishe Waterdocke or sharpdocke.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. ix. 558 The sharpepoynted Docke or Patience, groweth in wette moyst medowes.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 320 The common Sorrell or sower Docke.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xix. vi. 19 The root of the hearb Patience or garden Docke..is knowne to run downe into the ground three cubits deepe.
2. Also in the popular names of other coarse plants of similar habit, as dove dock n. coltsfoot ( Tussilago farfara). spatter dock n. yellow pond-lily ( Nuphar advena). velvet dock n. mullein ( Verbascum thapsus). Also burdock n., can-dock n., elf-dock n., round dock n. at round adj. Compounds 2b(b), etc.
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c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 136 Nimphea, eadocca.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 27 The great, common round Dock, which many People cultivate.
3. in dock, out nettle: originally a charm uttered to aid the cure of nettle-stings by dock-leaves; †hence, in allusion to the full phrase used, a proverbial expression for changeableness and inconstancy (obsolete).The charm to be repeated during the rubbing process is ‘Nettle in, dock out, Dock in, nettle out, Nettle in, dock out, Dock rub nettle out’ ( Notes & Queries Ser. i. III. 133).
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [phrase]
in dock, out nettlec1374
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 433 (461) But kanstow pleyen raket to and fro, Netle In, dokke out, now this now þat, Pandare?
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. iii. sig. C.iiij I can not skill of such chaungeable mettle, There is nothing with them but in docke out nettle.
a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. 391 Off and on, fast or loose, in docke, out nettle, and in nettle, out docke.
a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women iv. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 54 Is this my in dock, out nettle.
1715 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Wks. 430 They had been in Dock out Nettle above forty and forty Times.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
dock-leaf n.
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1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. ii. 50 He suckt it with his mouth..and softly gan it binde With Dock-leaues.
dock-root n.
C2.
dock-bur n. the flower-head of the burdock.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > burdock(s) > head of
dock-bur1632
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) The dock-burre or burre-docke, Bardane.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ii. 55 The sea-egg..nearly resembles a dock-burr.
dock-cress n. nipplewort ( Lapsana communis).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > nipplewort
dock-cress1597
swine's succory1597
nipplewort1640
wart succory1760
swinecress1855
succory dock-cress1857
dwarf nipplewort1866
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 199 Docke Cresses, is a wilde woort or pot herbe.
dock-fork n. a tool for digging out the roots of docks.
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1850 Beck's Florist Feb. 39 Eradicating this weed with a small instrument like a dock-fork.
dock-iron n. = dock-fork n.
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1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 493 The root must be completely taken out by the dock iron.
dock-nettle n. the lesser stinging nettle ( Urtica urens).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Urticaceae (nettle and allies) > [noun]
nettleeOE
dock-nettlea1300
Greekish nettlec1450
Roman nettle1578
red nettle1611
ettle1688
urtica1706
bur-nettle1714
pill nettle1714
nettle plant1764
richweed1814
clearweed1822
sting-nettle1822
ongaonga1842
nettlewort1846
urtical1846
jinny1876
a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 557/39 Dormentille, i. ortie griesche, i. docnettle.
dock-sorrel n. the sour dock, ( Rumex acetosa).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > culinary herbs > edible sorrel
sour dockc1325
sharp dockc1400
acetose?a1425
sorrelc1440
sourock?a1505
green sauce1620
sour docken1697
dock-sorrel1886
1886 M. Linskill Haven under Hill in Good Words 301 The dock-sorrel stood with its maroon spires in the air.
dock-worm n. a grub found on docks, used as a bait by anglers.
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1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iv. 95 The Flagworm, the Dockworm, the Oakworm. View more context for this quotation
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
dockn.2
/dɒk/, U.S. /dɑk/ 1. The solid fleshy part of an animal's tail.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > tail > solid fleshy part
dockc1400
docketa1592
strunt1610
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 193 Þe tayl..bounden boþe wyth a bande of a bryȝt grene, Dubbed wyth ful dere stoneȝ, as þe dok lasted.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 352 Asses haue the said docke or rumpe longer than horses.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvii. 150 We conjecture the age of Horses from joynts in their dockes . View more context for this quotation
1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 59 Hips wide, and rumps and docks good.
2. (a) A piece of leather harness covering the clipped tail of a horse. (b) The crupper of a saddle or harness; see also quot. 1874.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > tail-harness or crupper
after-ropeOE
crupperc1300
tail-ropec1325
dockc1400
tail-band1483
saker1607
c1400 [see sense 1].
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice v. 29 You shall buckle on his breast-plate, and his crooper..then you shall lace on his saker or docke.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Dock, in the manege, is used for a large case of leather..which serves it [the tail] for a cover. The French call the Dock, troussequeue.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Dock, a crupper to a saddle. Devon.
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dock..the divided piece forming part of the crupper, through which the horse's tail is inserted.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Dock, the crupper of either saddle or harness.
a. transferred of human beings: The rump, buttocks. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun]
flitcha700
arse-endseOE
culec1220
buttockc1300
tail1303
toutec1305
nagea1325
fundamentc1325
tail-end1377
brawna1382
buma1387
bewschers?a1400
crouponc1400
rumplec1430
lendc1440
nachec1440
luddocka1475
rearwarda1475
croupc1475
rumpc1475
dock1508
hurdies1535
bunc1538
sitting place1545
bottom?c1550
prat1567
nates1581
backside1593
crupper1594
posteriorums1596
catastrophe1600
podex1601
posterior1605
seat1607
poop1611
stern1631
cheek1639
breeka1642
doup1653
bumkin1658
bumfiddle1661
assa1672
butt1675
quarter1678
foundation1681
toby1681
bung1691
rear1716
fud1722
moon1756
derrière1774
rass1790
stern-post1810
sit-down1812
hinderland1817
hinderling1817
nancy1819
ultimatum1823
behinda1830
duff?1837
botty1842
rear end1851
latter end1852
hinder?1857
sit1862
sit-me-down1866
stern-works1879
tuchus1886
jacksy-pardy1891
sit-upon1910
can1913
truck-end1913
sitzfleisch1916
B.T.M.1919
fanny1919
bot1922
heinie1922
beam1929
yas yas1929
keister1931
batty1935
bim1935
arse-end1937
twat1937
okole1938
bahookie1939
bohunkus1941
quoit1941
patoot1942
rusty-dusty1942
dinger1943
jacksie1943
zatch1950
ding1957
booty1959
patootie1959
buns1960
wazoo1961
tush1962
1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 216 A rottyn crok, louse of the dok.
1684 Frost of 1683–4 22 One's heels fly up, and down he's on his dock.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > skirt
lapc897
quarter1501
dock1522
skirta1616
skirting1821
bell-skirt1907
1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. A.iii I wyll not go to scole..For there begynneth a sory fest Whan the mayster sholde lyfte my docke.
1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. B.i The drier, the les maidens, dablith their dockes.
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1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) . Thence in later Dicts.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > rear part of vessel > [noun]
sternc1300
after-ship1356
poop1489
tail1553
dockc1565
after-quarter1599
post1622
after-body1822
c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1728) 108 She bare many canons..two behind in her dock.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niiv/1 Dock of a ship, puppis.
6. A cut end of anything, e.g. of hair, (?) of a tree-trunk (Tusser); a stump; an end cut off. Now dialect.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a piece cut off > from the end
dock1573
crop1874
1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos x. Dd iij b His heare down shadowing shed, but gold embroyding bynds their docks.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15 For chimney in winter, to burne vp their docks.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Dock, the stump of the tail, which remains after docking.
1892 S. Baring-Gould Strange Survivals v. 112 [To] prevent..the red-hot dock [of a wick] from spluttering on to the carpet.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [noun] > cutting off
abscision?a1425
swappingc1540
abscission1604
resecation1607
resection1610
rescission1611
obtruncation1623
retrenchment1654
dock1667
offcut1674
docking1728
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 133 The amputation and dock of one member forces the bloud.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dock, Docking, in Law, a Means, or Expedient for cutting off an Estate Tail in Lands, or Tenements.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
dockn.3
/dɒk/, U.S. /dɑk/ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > hollow where ship lies in sand
docka1522
wet dock1627
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. vi. 22 Lat euery barge do prent hir self a dok.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 16 Graunt foorth thy warrant in docks oure nauye toe settle [L. liceat subducere classem].
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. i. 1 A wet Docke is any place, where you may hale in a ship into the oze out of the tides way, where shee may docke her selfe.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 80 Shee at a high water would fleet in her docke, though she were still dockt in the sands, almost foure foot.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > bay or gulf > small
hopec1425
docka1552
cove1590
hole1639
baylet1826
keyhole1851
porth1860
covelet1876
gunk-hole1908
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 44 Robyn Huddes Bay, a Dok or Bosom of a Mile yn lenghth.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 691 When he had taken them [sc. the pirates shippes], he brought them all into a docke.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > artificial trench to admit boat
dock1648
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 40 The Dock or Trench being thus finished, the Vergantines were calked.
a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 45 A chest bored full of holes..placed in a dock prepared for it..Herein were fish kept.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 150 I..resolv'd to cut a Dock, or Canal, to bring the Water up to the Canoe.
4. figurative.1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 36 He must cut out large docks and creeks into his text to unlade the foolish frigate of his unseasonable autorities.
a. An artificial basin excavated, built round with masonry, and fitted with flood-gates, into which ships are received for purposes of loading and unloading or for repair. dry or graving dock, a narrow basin into which a single vessel is received, and from which the water is then pumped or let out, leaving the vessel dry for the purpose of repair. (Sometimes also used for building ships.) wet dock, a large watertight enclosure in which the water is maintained at the level of high tide, so that vessels remain constantly afloat in it. floating dock, a large floating structure that can be used like a dry dock.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > dock
dock1486
basin1709
float1840
pen1917
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > shipyard or boat-yard > [noun] > dockyard > wet dock
wet dock1662
water docka1684
1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 23 About the bringing of the same ship into her dokke.
1488 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 26 Keping the said Ship at Erith in her dokke.
1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 137 The Reparalyng, fortifying, and amendyng the dokke for the Kynges shippes at Portesmouth, makyng of the gates, & fortifying the hede of the same dokke.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Docke where shippes be layed vp and made, nauale.
1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. xxiv. 76 Antigone..likewise caused iii mightie Docks to be cut out to build the sayd shippes in.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Astillero A docke to build ships in, nauale.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. i. 1 A Docke is a great pit or pond, or creeke by a harbour side..with two great floud-gates built so strong and close, that the Docke may be dry till the ship be built or repaired..and this is called a dry Docke.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 25 Jan. (1970) III. 18 Sir N. Crisp's project of making..about Deptford..a wett dock to hold 200 sail of ships.
1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 268 Docks are small Harbours cut into the Land.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 344 Her endless docks, quays, and warehouses are among the wonders of the world.
1868 Daily News 2 Sept. Mr. Campbell's..plan of an iron floating dry dock.
b. transferred with prepositions, in (or out of, etc.) dock, in hospital, undergoing treatment; (of a vehicle) laid up for repairs. colloquial.
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the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [adverb] > undergoing treatment
in (or out of, etc.) dock1919
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > testing, servicing, and storage of motor vehicles > [adverb] > of a vehicle: laid up for repairs
in (or out of, etc.) dock1939
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Dock He must go into dock, a sea phrase, signifying that the person spoken of, must undergo a salivation.
1848 in Amer. Speech (1935) 10 40/1 Hauled into dock, sick at home.
1919 Athenæum 11 July 582/2 ‘Dock’, hospital, is..probably from ‘in dock’.
1919 Athenæum 22 Aug. 791/2 While ‘in dock’ (i.e. in hospital) one lay upon ‘biscuits’.
1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air i. i. 11 The old car..was temporarily in dock.
1960 News Chron. 16 Feb. 6/5 He's just out of dock after the old appendix.
1963 ‘R. East’ Pin Men ii. 52 If Father's car hadn't been in dock.
c. In full scene-dock (see scene n. Compounds).
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > other parts of theatre > [noun] > place for storing scenery
scene room1667
scene dock1858
dock1898
1898 E. O. Sachs & E. A. E. Woodrow Mod. Opera Houses III. Suppl. i. 24 At each side of the stage the counterweight boxes practically form enclosing walls with a number of openings leading to a series of ‘scene’ docks on each side. The arrangement of these side docks..is essentially of French origin, and they afford a very ready means for the disposal of scenery which has to be quickly removed from the stage.
1898 E. O. Sachs & E. A. E. Woodrow Mod. Opera Houses III. Suppl. i. 34 There is a dock for each sequence of ‘traps’, so that the ‘wings’ belonging to each ‘entrance’ can always be kept in the dock opposite it.
1952 W. Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 158 Scene-dock, usually shorted, by stage carpenters, to dock. A stowage space at the back, or side, of the stage.
5. (Often plural) (a) A range of dock-basins (sense 4a) together with the adjoining wharfs, warehouses and offices ( commercial docks); (b) the whole establishment of similar basins and adjoining work-shops, etc., concerned with the building, outfit, and repair of ships; a dockyard ( naval docks).
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > dock > range of docks
dock1703
1703 London Gaz. No. 3912/2 Timber..for the use of her Majesty's Dock at Plimouth.
1770 J. Wesley Jrnl. 12 Oct. I walked round the Dock [at Portsmouth], much larger than any other in England.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) ix. 84 Captain Cuttle lived..near the India Docks.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 698 The docks were full of triremes and naval stores.
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6. Railways. An enclosure in a platform into which a single line of rails runs and terminates.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. Also dockyard n.
dock-boot n.
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1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 10 Sea Boots, Dock Boots.
dock-constable n.
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1891 Daily News 28 Dec. 3/6 The deceased..was seen safely aboard the vessel by a dock constable.
dock-head n.
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1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 143 The dokke, the dokke hedde & gates of the same.
1657 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1877) II. 142 To sett up a building att the west end of the house..by the dock head.
1736 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1885) XII. 139 The Watch House at the Dockhead.
1880 Times 17 Dec. 5/6 The Hartlepool..in entering dock struck the dockhead.
dock-house n.
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1661 S. Pepys Diary 10 Apr. (1970) II. 69 In the morning to see the Dock-houses.
dock-labourer n.
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1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 59 Dock-labourers..are simply strong men without any particular skill.
dock-man n.
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1755 B. Martin Misc. Corr. Oct. 171 Orders..that he should..form the Dockmen into a Regiment.
dock-side n.
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1887 Times 25 Aug. 4/5 [They] arrived at the dockside.
dock-sill n.
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1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 174 The dock sill is 3 feet 6 inches above low water-mark.
dock-space n.
dock-trade n.
dock-warehouse n.
C2. † dock-silver n. Scottish Obsolete dock-dues.
dock-charges n.
dock-company n. the company or corporate body owning a dock.
dock-dues n. charges made for the use of a dock.
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1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 44/2 Amount of Dock Dues.
dock-glass n. a large wine glass originally designed for wine-tasting.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass
glassc888
verrea1382
Venice glass1527
rummer1625
bottle glass1626
Malaga glassa1627
flute1649
flute-glass1668
long glass1680
mum-glass1684
toasting glass1703
wine glass1709
tulip-glass1755
tun-glass1755
water glass1779
tumbler-glass1795
Madeira glass1801
tumbling glass1803
noggin glass1805
champagne glass1815
table glass1815
balloon glass1819
copita1841
firing glass1842
nobbler1842
thimble glass1843
wine1848
liqueur-glass1850
straw-stem1853
pokal1854
goblet1856
mousseline1862
pony glass1862
long-sleever1872
cocktail glass1873
champagne flute1882
yard-glass1882
sleever1896
tea-glass1898
liqueur1907
dock-glass1911
toast-master glass1916
Waterford1916
stem-glass1922
Pilsner glass1923
Amen glass1924
ballon1930
balloon goblet1931
thistle glass1935
snifter1937
balloon1951
shot-glass1955
handle1956
tulip1961
schooner1967
champagne fountain1973
1911 Conc. Oxf. Dict. Dock-glass.
1920 G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-bk. i. 9 The large, slightly pinched-in ‘dock-glass’, half filled, suited it as indeed it does almost any wine.
1953 Word for Word (Whitbread & Co.) 18/1 Dock glass, a goblet holding exactly a quarter of a pint, used originally by Excise Officers for wine tasting in the docks.
dock-master n. the superintendent or manager of a dock.
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1736 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 146 Mr. Steers the Dockmaster.
dock-port n. a port that has a (naval) dock.
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1758 Let. to Mayor wherein Discouragem. of Seamen are Examined 42 Wages may be paid..at any Dock-Port.
dock-rent n. the charge made for warehousing goods in a dock.
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1641 Stirling Charters (1884) 151 (Jam. Suppl.) Heavin silver et dock silver.
dock-walloper n. U.S. a casual labourer engaged at docks and wharfs.
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1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Dock walloper, a loafer that hangs about the wharves. New York.
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 15 Oct. Dockwollopers are paid 40 to 45 cents an hour.
dock-warrant n. a certificate given to the owner of goods warehoused in a dock.
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1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 207 The holder of a dock-warrant has a prima-facie claim to the..hogsheads of sugar, or other packages named thereon.
Draft additions 1993
Usually in singular. A wharf or pier; a quay. Originally U.S.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay
wharf10..
staithe1338
quay1399
lading1594
staithe1613
bankshall1681
riverfront1751
dock1817
riva1819
embarcadero1850
landing-quay1861
1817 N.Y. Herald 20 Aug. 2/2 He left town at 1 o'clock in the morning of the same day, in charge of a friend, who waked him up previous to the packet reaching the dock at Sing-sing.
1856 X. D. MacLeod Biogr. F. Wood 193 Substantial stone or iron docks and piers should be constructed which would not only be durable, but in the result far more economical than those now in use.
1922 E. O'Neill Anna Christie iii. 160 Guess I'll take a walk down to the end of the dock for a minute and see what's doing. I love to watch the ships passing.
1943 N.Y. Times 29 Sept. 20/4 With us a dock is what the British call a wharf. With them a dock is the body of water enclosed within wharves, the thing we call a basin.
1972 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 27 June 3/7 The United States Coast Guard cutter Winnibago rammed into the dock bow first.
Draft additions 1993
A raised platform from which lorries or railway trucks are loaded and unloaded. North American.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > place of loading or unloading vehicle
tip1862
run1870
dock1918
loading bay1963
1918 S. V. Norton Motor Truck as Aid to Business Profits viii. 127 It is adapted to packing the truck at all depths, and the shipper does not have to carry the material any further than to the edge of the dock.
1930 Western Truck Owner Oct. 28/2 The freight depot of the White Motor Express..is a building 100 feet wide and 125 feet deep... On the first floor are the loading docks and a minor repair department.
1952 B. F. Conroy Motor Freight Workshop viii. 102 In a fork-lift-truck operation, the dock plates that are used to bridge the tailgate of the truck with the dock are most important.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 31/9 (advt.) City ground floor 9,000 sq. ft. can be divided... Truck level dock and grade level.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
dockn.4
/dɒk/, U.S. /dɑk/ The enclosure in a criminal court in which the prisoner is placed at his trial: it was formerly filled with the prisoners whose trial was put down for the day. Cf. bail-dock n.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > enclosure for prisoner(s)
dock1589
1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) iii. xviii. 76 Sterne Minos, and grimme Radymant, discend their duskie roomes: The Docke [1586 Docket] was also cleare of Gosts, adiorn'd to after-doomes.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist v. iv. sig. M2 Here will be Officers presently; bethinke you, Of some course sodainly to scape the Dock, For thether you'll come else. View more context for this quotation
1824 Ann. Reg. LXVI. 40 The prisoner, after receiving the congratulations of several of his friends, bowed, and retired from the dock.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xlii. 129 A dirty frowsy room..with a dock for the prisoners on the left hand.
1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life xliii. 396 [He] had to appear and surrender into the dock.
Compounds
dock brief n. a brief handed direct to a barrister in court, who has been selected by a prisoner, standing in the dock, to defend him. (Cf. docker n.3)
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society > law > legal profession > [noun] > instructions or briefs
instructions1529
breviate1594
brief1631
memorial1729
soup1856
watching brief1886
docker1889
dock brief1909
amicus curiae brief1919
1909 Daily Chron. 30 Apr. 6/7 The ‘dock brief’..is the only exception to the rule that briefs must come through a solicitor.
1928 Daily Tel. 10 Jan. 9 Barristers who are not anxious to accept dock briefs are entitled to leave the court on hearing a prisoner ask for one.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
dockv.1
/dɒk/, U.S. /dɑk/ 1. transitive.
a. To cut short in some part, esp. in the tail, hair, or similar appendage; to curtail.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > cut off tail, ears, or other bits
dockc1386
bobtail1577
dishorn1603
crop1607
strunt1828
de-tail1837
stern1858
decaudate1864
tail1886
dehorn1888
declaw1901
poll1907
defang1912
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > cut
shearc897
shavec1320
topc1330
dockc1386
clipc1405
pollc1450
roundc1450
coll1483
cow?1507
not1530
trim1530
tonse1555
benotte1594
decurtate1599
scissora1625
to set upa1625
tonsure1793
c1386 G. Chaucer Prol. 590 His tope was doked lyk a preest biforn.
1408 Will of Thomas de Brugge (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/2) f. 124 Egidio filio meo equum meum nigrum dokkede cum cella.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 125/2 Dockyd by þe tayle, decaudatus.
1564 T. Becon Workes Pref. sig. Aviiiv Admitting him vnto the ministery..without dockyng, greasyng, shauyng.
1673 E. Browne Brief Acct. Trav. Hvngaria 72 They have very good Horses..but they never dock them, but their tayls grow out at length.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxxvi. 256 His horses are not docked: Their tails are only tied up.
1813 Sporting Mag. 41 60 He related..his docking a defaulter in payment..He..cut off his long hair close to the scalp.
b. spec. To shorten (the tail of a horse, dog, etc.) by cutting off one or more of the extreme caudal vertebræ. Also absol.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > dock or nick horse
dock1530
curtail1577
nick1740
bob1822
1419 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 78 (note) Y wolde breke his Sege, and make hem of Roon dokke hys tayle.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 523/2 Docke your horse tayle, and make hym a courtault.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 191 Johnson: His tail then must be docked. That was the mark of Alcibiades's dog.
1804 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 2) II. 100 The barbarous custom of docking the tails..is in this country very prevalent.
1859 A. Cary Pictures Country Life 189 I'm a going to..learn to nick and dock.
2. transferred and figurative.
a. To cut short or abridge by taking away a part; to lessen, curtail, subject to limitation in some respect; to deprive, divest of (†from) some part or appendage.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > curtail
wanea889
dockc1380
bridgec1384
abridgea1393
limita1398
syncopec1412
defalk1475
shortena1535
to cut short?1542
royn1573
retrench1587
curtail1589
retranch1589
lop1594
scantle1596
scant1599
scantelize1611
curtalize1622
defalce1651
detrench1655
barb1657
defalcatea1690
razee1815
detruncate1846
to cut down1857
shave1898
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 180 Þei docken Goddis word, and tateren it bi þer rimes.
c1422 T. Hoccleve Jereslaus' Wife 541 If thow fynde þat I gabbe, Of my promesse thanne dokke me.
1693 W. Freke Sel. Ess. xix. 109 Docking it [learning] from its superfluous Pedantry.
1771 T. Jefferson Let. 20 Feb. in Papers (1950) I. 61 Dock the invoice of such articles as..I may get in the country.
1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 94 Dock, by the million, of its friendly joints, The electoral body short.
1889 Spectator 26 Oct. Wages..will be pretty sharply docked by rent.
1892 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 55 335/1 A participial adjective docked of its termination.
b. To make a deduction from (a person's pay) as a fine, subscription, etc.; also with the person as object. colloquial (originally dialect).
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [verb (transitive)] > make a deduction from
dock1822
bate1855
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > deduction > deduct [verb (transitive)]
abatec1400
rebate1425
batec1440
minishc1483
diminish?1504
detract1509
detray1509
deduct1524
defalkc1540
defalcate1541
subtray1549
derogate1561
discount1561
deduce?1566
substract1592
to strike off1597
reduct1600
subtract1610
subduct1716
to knock off1811
dock1891
shave1961
minus1963
1822 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Apr. 81 Hence arose numerous schemes for docking you in this quarter.
1891 C. Wordsworth Rutland Words (at cited word) Mr. A—— has docked his men as last Saturday, I suppose.
1891 Harper's Mag. Nov. 888/2 Each man was ‘docked’, or charged, seventy-five cents a month for medical services.
1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ vii. 128 Every man that drops anything into the bins gets docked an hour's pay.
1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ vii. 128 I guess we won't take the trouble to dock you.
1937 V. Bartlett This is my Life xi. 170 I should find my salary docked or stopped altogether.
3. To cut away, cut off; also = dag v.1 3.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > make short(er) [verb (transitive)] > (as if) by cutting
crop?c1225
dockc1380
cutc1385
trunk?1440
coll1483
scut1530
to cut, trim, etc. short1545
prune1565
bobtail1577
curtail1580
lop1594
decurtate1599
imp1657
truncate1727
abridge1750
bob1822
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 430 Þei wolden teche sum & sum hide & docke sum [of God's law].
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1855) II. v. 45 I see you have shaven the mustachios off..I thought I had best dock them.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Dock, to cut off the wool clotted with dung from around a sheep's tail.
4. Law. to dock the entail: to cut off or put an end to the entail; to break the prescribed line of succession to an estate; also figurative.
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society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > settle property [verb (intransitive)] > cut off entail
to dock the entail1629
1629 Vse of Law 58 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light These notable Statutes..doe dock Entayles.
1723 R. Steele Conscious Lovers iii He could not dock the entail.
1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in Wks. (1890) I. 124 A poor relation whose right in the entail of home traditions has been docked by revolution.
Derivatives
ˈdocking n. also attributive.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [noun] > cutting off
abscision?a1425
swappingc1540
abscission1604
resecation1607
resection1610
rescission1611
obtruncation1623
retrenchment1654
dock1667
offcut1674
docking1728
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > [noun] > making short or shorter > by cutting
truncation1579
curtailing1586
trunking1611
cropping1616
detruncation1623
procision1650
docking1728
short-circuiting1896
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dock, Docking, in Law, a Means, or Expedient for cutting off an Estate Tail in Lands, or Tenements.
1736 Compl. Family-piece iii. 379 So many Horses die with Docking.
1831 W. Youatt Horse xviii. 327 The veterinary surgeon with his docking machine..cuts through the tail at one stroke.
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dockv.2
/dɒk/, U.S. /dɑk/ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)]
dock?1518
fastenc1540
berth1871
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Cijv Now are they..sparcled abrode Lyke wyse as shyppes, be docked in a rode.
1615 R. Kayll Trades Increase 15 Two more [shippes] are docked vp there, as Pinaces, to trade vp and down.
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society > travel > travel by water > grounding of vessel > be aground (by so much) [verb (transitive)] > cause to run aground > deliberately
dock1627
beach1840
shore1899
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. i. 1 A wet Docke is any place, where you may hale in a ship into the oze out of the tides way, where shee may docke her selfe.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 80 Shee at a high water would fleet in her docke, though she were still dockt in the sands, almost foure foot.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 81 To weigh Ship..that hath not lain too long, and docked it self in Oaze.
1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xv. 157 When I had docked my Boat I would accompany her. [Cf. xii, I sought for a convenient place to stow my boat in..Having pitched upon a swampy place..I soon cut a trench from the lake.]
3.
a. To take, bring, or receive (a ship) into a dock (in the modern sense); cf. dock n.3 4.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > bring into dock
dock1600
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 376 Arsenals, or places for the building, repairing, docking, and harbouring of..gallies.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 21 July (1970) III. 142 We..saw the manner and trouble of dockeing such a ship.
1795 Hull Advertiser 3 Oct. 1/4 A grand dock-yard..sufficient to dock and re-fit 30 sail of the line.
1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 608 A British man-of-war was lying there waiting to be docked.
b. intransitive (for reflexive). To come into dock.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor [verb (intransitive)] > come into dock
dock1892
1892 Daily News 4 Nov. 3/1 Water..must be pumped out before she can dock.
4. transitive. To furnish or lay out with docks.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > furnish with harbours or ports [verb (transitive)] > furnish with dock, quay, or pier
quay1586
dock1757
pier1857
1757 W. Smith Hist. New York 187 The Ships lie off in the Roads, on the East Side of the Town, which is docked out.
1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 615 The cutting of the..Caledonian Canal, the docking of London and Liverpool.
5. transitive. To join (a space vehicle) to another in space; also intransitive, to become joined. Const. with. Frequently as docking.
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society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [verb (intransitive)] > meet or join another spacecraft
dock1951
rendezvous1951
society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [verb (transitive)] > join to another spacecraft
dock1951
1951 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 10 299 The idea of ‘docking’ a spaceship inside..a space-station is suicidal lunacy.
1960 A. W. Nelson in Amer. Rocket Soc. Paper No. 1493 –60. 9/1 The two are in essentially identical orbits and only a few hundred feet or so apart. Now the final ‘parking’ or ‘docking’ must be accomplished.
1961 W. Schroeder Terminal Guidance Scheme for Docking Satellites (Amer. Rocket Soc. Paper 1952–61) 5/1 While such a solution requires the minimum expenditure of fuel, it is unsatisfactory because of the time required to dock.
1969 Guardian 22 July 1 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin soared up and away from the moon's surface to dock with the command module.
1971 Times 26 Apr. 1/6 Soyuz 10 was docked with Salyut at 02.47 B.S.T. yesterday.
Derivatives
docked adj.3
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1969 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 1/2 Tass did not say whether an airlock connection allowed the crew to move from one docked capsule to the other, internally.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
dockv.3
Biscuit-making.
transitive. To pierce (a biscuit) with holes.
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1840 [Remembered as the term in regular use. G. Palmer.]
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 343 The biscuit was then docked, that is, pierced with holes by an instrument adapted to the purpose.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 346 A stamping and docking frame..The stamps or cutters in the frame being internally provided with prongs..dock the cakes, or cut pieces, with a series of holes, for the subsequent escape of the moisture, which, but for these vents, would distort and spoil the cake or biscuit when put in the oven.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
dockv.4
transitive. To place (a prisoner) in the dock.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > try or hear cause [verb (transitive)] > bring prisoner into dock or before court
induct1834
dock1895
1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Dec. 2/3 They [jury] did so on Saturday at Riom, when and where a lady was docked for disposal.
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