DOCK

Definitions

1. 1. to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse. His top was docked like a priest biforn. Chaucer.
2. 2. To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
3. 3. To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.