docking

3 definitions • 4 examples

present participle of

to remove part of something:

dock something by something As a punishment, the Army docked the soldiers' pay/wages by 20% and took away their leave.

The lambs' tails are docked (= cut short) for hygiene reasons.

If a ship docks, it arrives at a dock and if someone docks a ship, they bring it into a dock:

dock at Hundreds of people turned up to see the ship dock at the pier.

The Russians and Americans docked (= joined together in space) (their spacecraft) just after one o'clock this morning.