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dock

/dɑk/ verbo C2

En español: descolar, desrabar, desrabotar, rabotear

  1. To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy. (transitive)
  2. To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone). (transitive) · Her wages were docked by ten dollars.· They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase.
  3. To cut off, bar, or destroy. (transitive) · to dock an entail
  4. To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven. (transitive)

He/she/it docks · Pasado docked · Participio pasado docked · Forma en -ing docking

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De la biblioteca

You hope to place me in the dock.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 109 · B2
I tell you that I will never stand in the dock.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 109 · B2
I could not shoot him at sight, or I should myself be in the dock.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 31 · C1
During the scene of tumult, Andrea had turned his smiling face towards the assembly; then, leaning with one hand on the oaken rail of the dock, in the most graceful attitude possible, he said:
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1057 · C1

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