docking
The English word “docking” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
- The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
- The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
- A sex act where two partners are co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
- A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
- The pricking of many small holes into doughs and pastry.
Etymology
From dock + -ing.
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