Dock \Dock\, n. [Akin to D. dok; of uncertain origin; cf. LL. doga ditch, L. doga ditch, L. doga sort of vessel, Gr. ? receptacle, fr. ? to receive.] 1. An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.
2. 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.
3. The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.
{Balance dock}, a kind of {floating dock} which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers.
{Dry dock}, a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls and floor, often of masonry and communicating with deep water, but having appliances for excluding it; -- used in constructing or repairing ships. The name includes structures used for the examination, repairing, or building of vessels, as graving docks, floating docks, hydraulic docks, etc.
{Floating dock}, a dock which is made to become buoyant, and, by floating, to lift a vessel out of water.
{Graving dock}, a dock for holding a ship for graving or cleaning the bottom, etc.
{Hydraulic dock}, a dock in which a vessel is raised clear of the water by hydraulic presses.
{Naval dock}, a dock connected with which are naval stores, materials, and all conveniences for the construction and repair of ships.
{Sectional dock}, a form of {floating dock} made in separate sections or caissons.
{Slip dock}, a dock having a sloping floor that extends from deep water to above high-water mark, and upon which is a railway on which runs a cradle carrying the ship.
{Wet dock}, a dock where the water is shut in, and kept at a given level, to facilitate the loading and unloading of ships; -- also sometimes used as a place of safety; a basin.
Dock \Dock\ (d[o^]k), n. [AS. docce; of uncertain origin; cf. G. docken-bl["a]tter, Gael. dogha burdock, OF. doque; perh. akin to L. daucus, daucum, Gr. ?, ?, a kind of parsnip or carrot, used in medicine. Cf. {Burdock}.] (Bot.) A genus of plants ({Rumex}), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.
Note: Yellow dock is {Rumex crispus}, with smooth curly leaves and yellow root, which that of other species is used medicinally as an astringent and tonic.
Dock \Dock\, n. [Cf. Icel. dockr a short tail, Fries. dok a little bundle or bunch, G. docke bundle, skein, a short and thick column.] 1. The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting. --Grew.
2. A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
Dock \Dock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Docked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Docking}.] [See {Dock} a tail. Cf. W. tociaw, and twciaw, to dock, clip.] 1. 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. -- Chaucer.
2. To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
3. To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.
Dock \Dock\, v. t. To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.
The dock contains five blocks of five-story, red-brick and cast-iron warehouses surrounding a 7-acre "courtyard" of water.
"The drug people have to know our vessels are at the dock and planes are not flying," said Vice Adm.
These days you also see groups of young Soviet sailors trudging through town while their ships dock, their beribboned hats shadowing pale faces.
While the good ship will, at best, be in dry dock for some time, all hands were safe.
More than 1,800 cast in situ piles will be constructed to depths of up to 21 metres with over one third being founded in the concrete inverts of the infilled dock and lock structures.
Such bonds would eliminate the interest-rate premium lenders now demand to cover the risk of future dollar depreciation which would dock the repayment value.
The Valdez dock area collapsed into the harbor when 95-foot waves lashed the waterfront.
Activist Kelly Quirke said Greenpeace was protesting "a fossil-fuel energy policy that is not only destroying the ocean but the atmosphere." The Valdez will be moved to dry dock after an underwater survey of damage.
Old brick-built workshops nearby are empty and silent. It is a scene familiar from other former shipyard towns in northern Europe. But just across from the dry dock is a sight that makes the plight of Uddevalla especially poignant.
The plan also contained 'unacceptable risks' by using an emergency dock. Mr Ian Lang, Scottish secretary, who had argued strongly in favour of Rosyth, insisted losing the Trident work was 'not the end of the world' for the dockyard.
Bush has ordered his small army of Secret Service agents and other federal officials to keep their boats and helicopters at a distance, and other trappings of power are left at the dock, Hommell said.
The patched-up American Trader moved into Long Beach Harbor this morning and tied up at an Atlantic Richfield Co. dock to unload the remaining 21 million gallons of crude oil in its tanks and begin hull puncture repairs.
I want to create jobs in middle America." A car ferry undergoing repairs hit a dock Friday and tipped over, temporarily trapping 21 crewmen and workers, but no injuries were reported, police said.
In congressional ethics cases, the member in the dock often leaves with a warning to colleagues that they might be next.
Alonzo Torres, a Miami Cuban who says he used to "dabble" in the drug trade but now comes only for the fishing, recalls pulling up to a dock in 1986 in a $35,000 hot-rod speedboat.
Students and dock workers have formed illegal unions and 21 elder statesmen created a Committee for Democracy led by Win Maung, 72, who was president in Prime Minister U Nu's government.
From the convening of the 1st Congress in 1789 until 1816, a 27-year span, members of Congress were paid at the rate of $6 a day _ with attempts made from time to time to dock the pay of absentees.
"Arriving passengers had just disembarked and departing passengers were gathered on the dock to board the vessel when the rocketing started," a port spokesman said.
An explosion ripped through the pump room of a Pakistani-owned supertanker today while it was in dry dock, and some deaths and injuries were reported, Persian Gulf shipping sources said.
In announcing the firing-squad executions of the 28, Radio Omdurman did not specify how many remained in the dock.
A settlement in the eight-day Brazilian dock strike apparently played a part in the sell-off, although the walkout wasn't a factor in the recent price advances.
He said the USS Boulder still will dock in Duluth on July 21 so people can tour the ship.
Union leaders on Tuesday called off a 3-week-old national dock strike that had faltered because more longshoremen were back on the job than were out on strike.
Also weighing on cocoa futures was the settlement of the Brazilian dock workers strike.
The Transport and General Workers Union said 96 percent of its 9,400 dock workers stayed away on the first day of an indefinite strike for job guarantees at 60 ports nationwide.
"It ended today very quietly and we were pleased it ended quietly," Exxon Shipping Co. President Frank Iarossi told reporters at the dock.
Associated British Ports, one of Britain's biggest dock owners, had threatened to fire Southampton, Hull and Fleetwood workers if they stayed away Monday.
The most economic way to ship oil to the U.S. from there is on supertankers too big to dock at any domestic onshore ports. Such ships can either unload at LOOP or anchor and pump their cargo into several smaller vessels in a process called lightering.
The regulations were negotiated as part of the industry's efforts to introduce cargo containers, which can be unloaded from a ship into a railroad car or a flat-bed truck without being opened by dock hands.