docking-ironn.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dock n.1, -ing suffix1, iron n.1
Etymology: < dock n.1 + -ing suffix1 + iron n.1 Compare dock-iron n. at dock n.1 Compounds 2.
1777 W. Curtis I. Pl. 137 For its [dock's] destruction an instrument, called a Docking Iron, has been invented.
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