Read full poem →of the docks and the ships were boisterously glad of a
spacious place to spread joy in.
Dictionary Entry
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
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Common Phrases
. docksdocks londondocks drydocks loadingdocks indiadocks merseydocks floating
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Poetry examples for “docks”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →After their lunch, Banjo and Malty went across the
suspension bridge to the docks on the other side. They
were jomed by Dengel, who approached them rocking
Read full poem →Frederick has got, besides his pay,
A good appointment in the Docks;
Also to thank you for the frocks
Read full poem →On buildings, presses, stocks
In gas, oil, coal and docks.
The mahogany rooms conceal a spider man
Read full poem →Towards Alton, ten miles off. And he had not
Done less from Chilgrove where he pulled up docks.
'Twere best, if he had had "a money-box,"
Read full poem →Exploded against the chymist’s one.
Too many prisoners in docks,
Liars in the witness box,
Read full poem →Surely there, among the great docks, is peace, my mind;
there with the ships moored in the river.