docking

Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of dock
2. Culinary term for pricking many small holes into doughs and pastry.

1. The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
2. The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
3. The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
4. The male homosexual sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
5. A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

1. A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF765370).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Etymology

From dock + -ing.