See Also: crater(dictionary)
crater(encyclopedia)
crater arc(medicine)
crater(medicine)
crater(dictionary)
meteorite crater(encyclopedia)
Crater Lake(encyclopedia)
crater (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument(encyclopedia)
dock(5)(dictionary)

dock(2) (iou) and crater (sh)


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.

crater (sh)




Circular depression in the surface of a planetary body.

Most craters are the result of impacts of meteorites or of volcanic explosions. Meteorite craters are more common on the Moon and Mars and on Other planets and natural satellites than on Earth, because most meteorites either burn up in the Earth's atmosphere before reaching its surface or erosion soon obscures the impact site. Craters made by exploding volcanoes (e.g., Crater Lake, Ore.) are more common on the Earth than on the Moon, Mars, or Jupiter's moon Io, where they have also been identified.