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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dock \Dock\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
docked
adjective
1: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "docked": Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, butchered, capsule, capsulized, castrated, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, garbled, gnomic, hashed, laconic, lopped, mangled, mowed, mown, mutilated, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated
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