dock3 (dok)

t. [= D. Flem. dokken = Dan. dokke, dock; from the noun.] To bring or draw into or place in a dock. It floweth 18. foot, that you may make, dock , or carine ships with much facilitie. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, I. 111. dock4 (dok), n. [Appar. the same word as dock3; cf. OFlem. docke , a cage.] The place where a criminal stands in court. Here will be officers, presently; bethink you Of some course sodainely to scape the dock ; For thither you'll come else. B. Jonson, Alchemist, v. 5. dockagel (dok'āj), n. [ dock2 + -age .] Curtailment; deduction, as of wages. There is no docking for accidental delays.... I do not find in the time-book a single instance of dockage for any Phila . Times , March 20, 1886. reason.