dock
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- body of water
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- wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/03216828-n
- OpenStreetMap tag
- waterway=dock
- Commons category
- Docks
- topic's main category
- Category:Docks (maritime)
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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- dry dock
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- American English
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The word dock () in American English refers to one or a group of human-made structures that are involved in the handling of boats or ships (usually on or near a shore). In British English, the term is not used the same way as in American English; it is used to mean the area of water that is next to or around a wharf or quay. The exact meaning varies among different variants of the English language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.