dock

IPA(Pronunciation)

/dɒk/

Verb

transitive

(transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy. / (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from. / (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.

Japanese Meaning

動物の尾の一部を切り落とす、尾切り（尾の切除）を行うこと。 / 賃金などを減額する、控除すること。 / 切断する、遮断する、または破壊すること。

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

羊飼いは、生まれて間もない子羊の尻尾の一部を切り落とし、ウジ虫による被害のリスクを減らすことにした。

Details

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(transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

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