docking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of dock
2. (transitive)Culinary term for pricking many small holes into doughs and pastry.

noun

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. (slang, vulgar)The male homosexual sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.

   “From their discussions, the participants mentioned informational and stimulating variations. For touching, one could always use feather dusters, a massage, a tongue in the ear, spooning and sucking toes (known in New York City as "shrimping). There's also "docking" for foreskinned men who can creatively stroke appendages.”

5. A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

name

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