subs. (printers’).—1. The weekly work bill or POLE (q.v.).
2. (popular).—The hospital.
Verb (old).—1. To deflower; hence, by implication, to possess; [Gypsy dūkker, to ravish]. Feminine analogues are TO HAVE DONE THE TRICK; TO HAVE HAD IT; TO HAVE DONE IT AT LAST; TO BE CRACKED IN THE RING; TO HAVE BROKEN HER TEA-CUP; TO HAVE HAD IT THERE; TO HAVE GONE STARGAZING ON HER BACK; TO HAVE GIVEN HER PUSSY A TASTE OF CREAM; TO HAVE LET THE PONY OVER THE DYKE (Scots’); TO HAVE BROKEN HER KNEES or HER LEG; TO HAVE SPRAINED HER ANKLE. Fr., avoir vu le loup; laisser aller le chat au fromage; and avoir vu la lune; whilst l’avoir encore and avoir encore l’avoine is said of maids. Sp., desvirgar = to deflower: DOCKED = possessed.
1567. HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors [ed. 1869, E.E.T.S.], p. 87. He DOKTE the dell.
1609. DEKKER, Lanthorne and Candlelight. ‘Canting Rithmes.’ DOCKED the Dell, for a Coper meke.
1611. MIDDLETON and DEKKER, The Roaring Girle, v., 1. And couch till a pallyard DOCKED my dell.
2. (Winchester College).—To scratch out; to tear out (as from a book); also to strike down.
TO GO INTO DOCK, verb. phr. (nautical).—To undergo salivation.
TO BE DOCKED SMACK SMOOTH, verb. phr. (old).—To have suffered amputation of the penis.
