Noun: dock
Sample Sentences
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And vnder neath him his courageous ſteed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks […] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 352:]
Nouns inflected like dock
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)). See: Middle English Nouns '
dokke', Old English Nouns '
docce'.
Verbs referencing "dock"
Polish Nouns
dok, Romanian Nouns
doc, German Nouns
Dock, Hungarian Nouns
dokk, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
dokk, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
dokk, Portuguese Nouns
doca.