Docking
name, noun, verb, slang ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
- 2 the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes wordnet
- 3 The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
- 4 The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
- 5 The male homosexual sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins. slang, vulgar
"From their discussions, the participants mentioned informational and stimulating variations. For touching, one could always use feather dusters, a massage, a tongue in the ear, spooning and sucking toes (known in New York City as "shrimping). There's also "docking" for foreskinned men who can creatively stroke appendages."
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- 6 A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
- 1 present participle and gerund of dock form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 2 Culinary term for pricking many small holes into doughs and pastry. transitive
- 1 A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF765370). countable, uncountable
- 2 A habitational surname from Old English. countable, uncountable
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More examples"Following the docking failure of an unmanned Russian freighter to the International Space Station, its partners are considering a temporary mothballing of the station."
Etymology
From dock + -ing.
From Middle English dockyng. By surface analysis, dock + -ing.
From Old English docce (“dock, a weedy plant”) + -ing.
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