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where land loses its nerve and water starts asking questions.
means A dock is the structure or enclosed water along a waterfront where boats are moored, loaded, or repaired — and, by extension, the verb for bringing two things snugly together.
from From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German 'docke,' meaning a ship's berth — the hollowed-out place water makes room for a hull. English sailors borrowed it, as sailors borrowed most useful words, off the lips of Dutch and Low German traders working the same crowded harbors. The other 'dock' — to cut short, as in docking a tail or docking your pay — comes from a separate, unrelated root meaning the fleshy part of an animal's tail, and over time grew the sense of 'to trim down.' The courtroom 'dock,' where the accused stands, is yet a third stranger sharing the same four letters, possibly from Flemish 'dok,' a cage or pen.
- word twins
- a courtroom dock holds defendants, not boats
- plant world
- dock leaves famously soothe nettle stings
- tail trim
- to dock means to cut something short
- space age
- spacecraft dock to share air and crew
- pay cut
- to dock wages is to slice them
sydney opera house dock — circular quay in sydney harbour where ferries and cruise ships dock daily
hamburg port docks — world's third-largest container port with 46 docks handling 8.7 million containers yearly