Docked

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dock \Dock\, v. t. [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.
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              His top was docked like a priest biforn. -- Chaucer.
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     2. To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to
        subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
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     3. To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  docked
       adj 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