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dock(2) (iou)



dock noun2. LME.
[Perh. identical with 2nd elem. of Old English fingerdoccan finger muscles, and corresp. to Frisian dok bunch, ball (of twine etc.), Middle & mod. Low German dokke bundle of straw, Old High German tocka (southern German Docke) doll. In sense 6 from DOCK verb1.]
The solid fleshy or bony part of an animal's tail. LME.
A person's buttocks. Long obsolete exc. Scot. and in strong-docked s.v. STRONG adjective. E16.
The skirts of a garment. E-M16.
The stump left after a tail is docked; gen. (now dial.), a cut end of anything, a stump. L16.
Part of a crupper in the form of a ring through which a horse's tail is inserted; a crupper; a covering for a horse's tail. E17.
The action or an act of docking or cutting short. Now only spec. (Scot.), a haircut. M17.