dock
/dɑk/ noun C2- A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
- The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant. · coffee dock
- A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
- An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
Plural docks
From the library
You hope to place me in the dock.
I tell you that I will never stand in the dock.
I could not shoot him at sight, or I should myself be in the dock.
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:
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