Docks

"Docks" is a plural of: dock.

Date "Docks" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Docks

Crosswords: Docks

We're heading for the docks! (One Crazy Summer; writing credit: Savage Steve Holland)

Rumble on the Docks (1956)

Docks of New Orleans (1948)

San Francisco Docks (1941)

Docks of San Francisco (1932)

The Docks of New York (1928)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Docks des Petroles D'Ambes SA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Light Vessels, Fire-Floats, Dredgers, Floating Cranes and Other Vessels without Navigation As Their Main Function, Floating Docks, and Drilling Platforms: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Great Northern Railway Ore Docks of Lake Superior Photo Archive (reference)

• North Carolina Beaches: A Visit to National Seashores, State Parks, Ferries, Public Beaches, Wildlife Refuges, Historic Sites, Lighthouses, Boat Ramps and Docks, Museums, and (reference)

• Starsky & Hutch #5: Terror on the Docks (reference)

• Docks and destinations : coastal marinas and moorage : a west coast cruising dock-to-dock destinations guide, San Juan Islands to Port Hardy (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A fish cleaning expert awaits the next load of fish to land at the Dolphin Docks. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"The Great Northern Docks" at Smith's Cove. In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 69. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Boy fishing from the commercial docks. Credit: Fisheries.

An expert fish cleaner awaits the days' catch at Dolphin Docks. Credit: Fisheries.

Pay phones on the docks were the primary means of saying goodbye or hello to family and friends with vessels coming and going. Credit: Fisheries.

The "Chandlery" at the commercial docks at Santa Barbara. Credit: Fisheries.

Chesapeake Docks, a geographic paradox, advertising sailfish fishing prowess. Credit: Fisheries.

A local shellfisherman unloads his harvest at the docks where the quahogs were weighed by local shellfish enforcement agencies before being transferred to the spawner sanctuaries. The shellfishermen were paid for the harvest by the RI DEM. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Native "commercial" fishermen fishing for tuna off the phosphate loading docks at Aqaba. Credit: Small World.

FWS Docks, Petersburg. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

On the expiration of one month from the coming into force of the present Treaty all German submarines, submarine salvage vessels and docks for submarines, including the tubular dock, must have been handed over to the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Rats that inhabit ships and docks should also be controlled by trained professionals who can inspect and, if necessary, fumigate cargoes. (references)

Business

The only significant local production of aircraft maintenance equipment in Singapore is the fabrication of aircraft hangars and maintenance docks. (references)

These docks and container terminals have completed the major initial investments and most of the critical equipment has been replaced with private sector funding totaling $400 million. (references)

The port of Bilbao began work in 1992 on an extensive project that will provide the port with 3.5 millions of square meters of land surface and 8 kilometers of new docks with depths ranging 21-25 meters. (references)

Economic History

El Salvador

In 2000 Acajutla handled 2.5 million tons, about the same as in 1999. Acajutla has four docks and is capable of handling containers and heavy loads up to 25 metric tons. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

Children reportedly continue to be employed illegally on the docks of some Mindanao and Visayan ports, although there were no specific reports of such labor during the year. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "Docks": naval docks. Additional references.

Ending with "Docks": Ouen-les-docks, Saint-ouen-les-docks, wet-docks.

Czech

doky, přístavištì (berth, landing place, quay, wharf). (various references)

German

Hafenanlagen (harbor equipment, harbor facilities, harbour equipment, harbour facilities, port equipment, port facilities, port installations). (various references)

Indonesian

perbandaran (system of docks). (various references)

Italian

impianti portuali (harbor equipment, harbor facilities, harbour equipment, harbour facilities, port equipment, port facilities, port installations). (various references)

Manx

shughlaigagh (abounding in sharp docks, sorrel-covered), cabbagagh (abounding in docks). (various references)

Pig Latin

ocksday.(various references)

Swedish

varv (circuit, course, lap, layer, Rev, revolution, round, row, shipbuilding yard, shipyard, turn, wind), hamnanläggning (Harbor, harbour), hamn (apparition, ghost, guise, Harbor, harbour, haven, port), bassänger. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "Docks": dockside, docksides. (additional references)

Words ending with "Docks": boondocks, burdocks, haddocks, paddocks, piddocks, redocks, ruddocks, shaddocks, spatterdocks, undocks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Docks" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dcock, doacks, doaks, docc, Docco, docka, docke, Docko, Docksey, doik, Doku, Donck, dooks, dox, Dycks, wocks. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cods, dock, docs, sock.

-2 letters: cod, cos, doc, dos, kos, ods, sod.

-3 letters: do, od, os, so.

+1 letter: socked.

+2 letters: dockers, dockets, redocks, shocked, smocked, stocked, undocks.

+3 letters: bedrocks, burdocks, cockades, copydesk, cuckolds, daglocks, defrocks, diestock, disfrock, dockages, dockside, dornecks, dornicks, dornocks, geoducks, haddocks, mudrocks, paddocks, padlocks, piddocks, ruddocks, shaddock, socketed, stockade, wedlocks, windsock.

+4 letters: backdrops, backsword, backwoods, blockades, boondocks, clerkdoms, codebooks, cokeheads, coldcocks, copydesks, corkwoods, deadlocks, deckhouse, diestocks, disfrocks, dockhands, docklands, docksides, dockyards, dominicks, downticks, drammocks, dropkicks, ductworks, feedstock, foredecks, fossicked, gridlocks, headlocks, headstock, holdbacks, lockdowns, miscooked, mosaicked, overdecks, restocked, rockslide, rockweeds, schoolkid, shaddocks, shylocked, stockaded, stockades, stockyard, windsocks, woodcocks.