docking.
The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
Meaning & usage
The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
A sex act where two partners are co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
The pricking of many small holes into doughs and pastry.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English dockyng. By surface analysis, dock + -ing.
present participle and gerund of dock
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English dock Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ynge English -ing English docking From dock + -ing.
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