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Docking

name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF765370). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A habitational surname from Old English. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
  2. 2
    the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes wordnet
  3. 3
    The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
  4. 4
    The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
  5. 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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  1. 6
    A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of dock form-of, gerund, participle, present
  2. 2
    Culinary term for pricking many small holes into doughs and pastry. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From dock + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dockyng. By surface analysis, dock + -ing.

Etymology 3

From Old English docce (“dock, a weedy plant”) + -ing.

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