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Docked

Dock \Dock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Docked; p. pr. & vb. n. Docking.] [See Dock a tail. Cf. W. tociaw, and twciaw, to dock, clip.]

  1. to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.

    His top was docked like a priest biforn. -- Chaucer.

  2. To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.

  3. To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.

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docked

vb. (en-past of: dock)

WordNet
docked
  1. adj. that in a dock; "a docked ship"

  2. (of animals) having ears or tail cut short; "doberman pinschers with docked tails and ears" [syn: clipped]

Usage examples of "docked".

They are currently docked in harbour three, and they’re sailing in four hours.

He had told his story a dozen times a day since he docked, especially among the other scavengers and spaceport crews.

The boxy drones ran along the rails which spiralled up the bay walls, giving them access to any part of the docked ship.

The pilot never touched alcohol while the Lady Macbeth was docked to a station or in a parking orbit.

A passenger McBoeing BDA-9008 was docked to an airlock tube on its forward hull.

X-ray lasers started to chop at the Krystal Moon as the MSV docked with its own cradle to be drawn gingerly into the hangar bay.

Kelven had seen the cryogenic tanker as Ilex docked with the huge flagship.

In the meantime the Lalonde mission has left a pleasing shortage of starships docked here.

But since it docked at Guyana its systems have functioned smoothly,” the Admiral said.

During the interim there were just two inter-orbit vessels docked, which the station staff used to commute to Aethra on their inspection tours.

So for the first time in a hundred and thirty years he expanded his affinity and grudgingly contacted the Edenist habitats orbiting Kohistan to tell them the starship had docked briefly.

Then some idiot from the spaceport’s civil traffic control centre leaked the news (actually he was paid two hundred thousand fuseodollars by Collins for the data) that the Yaku had docked at Valisk.

Apparently there was some kind of garbled message a few minutes after the frigate’s spaceplane docked, then nothing.

Two seconds later it confirmed the Dechal was docked, and had been for ten days.

They were risking themselves to save him, while he would be turning them over to the authorities as soon as they docked at a civilized port.