An enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial.

Roget 636: stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow.    stock in trade, supply; heap etc. (collection) 72; treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche [Fr.].    crop, harvest, mow, vintage.    store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay etc. (provision) 637.    storehouse, storeroom, storecloset^†; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory^†, repertory; repertorium^†; promptuary^†, warehouse, entrepot [Fr.], magazine; buttery, larder, spence^†; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom^†; thesaurus; bank etc. (treasury) 802; armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery^†, menagerie.    reservoir, cistern, aljibar^†, tank, pond, mill pond; gasometer^†.    budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio; coffer etc. (receptacle) 191.    conservation; storing etc. v.; storage.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 966: tribunal, court, board, bench, judicatory^†; court of justice, court of law, court of arbitration, administrative court; inquisition; guild.    justice seat; judgment seat, mercy seat; woolsack^†; bar of justice; dock; forum, hustings, bureau, drumhead; jury box, witness box.    senate house, town hall, theater; House of Commons, House of Lords; statehouse [U.S.], townhouse.    assize, eyre; wardmote^†, burghmote^†; barmote^†; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer [Law], court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court^†, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet [Fr.], court-baron, court of pie poudre [Fr.], court of common council; board of green cloth.    court martial; drumhead court martial; durbar^†, divan; Areopagus^†; Irota.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: beklaagdenbank, strafbank, verdachtenbank

Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine.

synoniemen: sorrel, sour grass.

Nederlands: klit
Pools: szczaw

A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats.

synoniemen: pier, wharf, wharfage.

Roget 189: abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat, lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance^†, tabernacle, throne, ark.    home, fatherland; country; homestead, homestall^†; fireside; hearth, hearth stone; chimney corner, inglenook, ingle side; harem, seraglio, zenana^†; household gods, lares et penates [Lat.], roof, household, housing, dulce domum [Lat.], paternal domicile; native soil, native land.    habitat, range, stamping ground; haunt, hangout; biosphere; environment, ecological niche.    nest, nidus, snuggery^†; arbor, bower, etc. 191; lair, den, cave, hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum [Lat.], aerie, eyrie, eyry^†, rookery, hive; covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost; nidification; kala jagah^†.    bivouac, camp, encampment, cantonment, castrametation^†; barrack, casemate^†, casern^†.    tent etc. (covering) 223; building etc. (construction) 161; chamber etc. (receptacle) 191; xenodochium^†.    tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft^†.    cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy^†, shanty, dugout [U.S.], wigwam; pen etc. (inclosure) 232; barn, bawn^†; kennel, sty, doghold^†, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary^†, columbarium; shippen^†; igloo, iglu^†, jacal^†; lacustrine dwelling^†, lacuslake dwelling^†, lacuspile dwelling^†; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang [Slang], tepee, topek^†.    house, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe [Lat.], folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa [Sp.], country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple etc. 1000.    hamlet, village, thorp^†, dorp^†, ham, kraal; borough, burgh, town, city, capital, metropolis; suburb; province, country; county town, county seat; courthouse [U.S.]; ghetto.    street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda^†, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd [Scot.], close [Scot.], yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews.    square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade, peristyle, cloister; gardens, grove, residences; block of buildings, market place, place, plaza.    anchorage, roadstead, roads; dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor.    quarter, parish etc. (region) 181.    assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow^†, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house [U.S.], cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop^†, dive [U.S.], exchange [Euph.]; grill room, saloon [U.S.], shebeen^†; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet^†, posada^†; almshouse^†, poorhouse, townhouse [U.S.].    garden, park, pleasure ground, plaisance^†, demesne.    [quarters for animals] cage, terrarium, doghouse; pen, aviary; barn, stall; zoo.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 691: workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business; manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory; cabinet, studio; office, branch office bureau, atelier.    [specific types of workplace: list], hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary^†; armory; laboratory, lab, research institute; refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor; beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery^†, usine^†, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery^†; furnace; vineyard; crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: kaai, kade, pier, pijler, wal, werf
Pools: nabrzeże

A platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded.

synoniem: loading dock.

Landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out:
— The ship arrived at the dock more than a day late.

synoniemen: dockage, docking facility.

Nederlands: dok
Pools: dok

The solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair.

A short or shortened tail of certain animals.

synoniemen: bob, bobtail.

Come into dock.

Roget 201: be short etc. adj.; render short etc. adj.; shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress etc. (contract) 195; epitomize etc. 596.    retrench, cut short, obtruncate^†; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten (in drawing). ... meer laten zien

Deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty.

Deduct from someone's wages.

Remove or shorten the tail of an animal.

synoniemen: bob, tail.

Maneuver into a dock.