docking
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- n the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes
- v come into dock
- v deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
- v deduct from someone's wages
- v remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- v maneuver into a dock
- Next week the first of 60 shiploads of Indians will begin docking at the southern ports of Madras and Visakhapatnam.
- When the Doorman arrived at Fremantle, Australia, the local seamen's union struck to show sympathy with Indonesia, refused to man tugs or docking lines.
- But Lovell, as well as other Western observers, believes that the space docking project could also be part of a Soviet effort toward orbiting the moon from a space platform .