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Word entry · 4 letters

dock

Best crossword clue

"Boat-tying platform"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /dɒk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted cdkoStarts with DEnds with K6 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. maneuver into a dock

Word origin

From Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)).

Used in a sentence

  • And vnder neath him his courageous ſteed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks […]
  • The Dock is about 1 inch thick, and two inches broad, like an Apothecaries Spatule. Of what length the whole, is uncertain, this being only part of it, though it looks as if cut off near the Buttock
  • And on a Cuſhion ſtuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer6 curated clues

01Boat-tying platform4 letters
02Platform at a marina4 letters
03Platform beside water4 letters
04Platform where boats stop4 letters
05Waterside platform4 letters
06Boat landing place4 letters

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