dockmaster (dokmaster)

One who has the superintendence of docks. dock-rent (dok'rent), n. Charge for storing and warehousing goods in a dock. dock-warrant (dok'wor"ant), n. In England, a certificate given to the owner of goods warehoused in the docks; a warehouse-receipt. When a transfer is made, the certificate is indorsed with an order to deliver the goods to the purchaser. The warrant thus becomes an authority for the removal of the goods. The holder of a dock - warrant has a prima-facie claim to the pipes of wine, bales of wool, hogsheads of sugar, or other packages named thereon. Jevons , Money and Mech. of Exchange, p. 207. A yard or magazine dockyard (dok'yärd), n. near a harbor, for containing all kinds of naval stores and timber. Dockyards belonging to the gov- ernment (called in the United States navy - yards ) usually include dry-docks for repairing ships, and slips on which new ve els are built, besides the storehouses and work- shops. A siluroid fish of the docmac (dok'mak), n. genus Bagrus ( B. docmac ), inhabiting the Nile. It is a kind of catfish. The genus Bagrus, of which the Bayad (B. bayad) and Docmac (B. docmac) frequently come under the notice of travellers on the Nile. Gunther , Encyc. Brit., XXII. 68. Docoglo o a (dok-o-glos'), n. pl. [NL., Gr. δοκός, a bearing-beam, a beam, bar, + γλώσσα, tongue.] A group or order of diœcio us gastropods, characterized by having transverse rows of beam-like teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon. Different limits have been a igned to it. (a) In Troschel's system it was made to include the limpet-like gastropods and the chitons. (b) In Gill's and later systems it is restricted to the limpet-like forms, as the families Patellida, Acmæidæ, and Lepetidæ.