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dockside

[ UK /dˈɒksa‍ɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈdɑkˌsaɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. the region adjacent to a boat dock

How To Use dockside In A Sentence

  • While dockside or at anchor, the back of the helm seat may be flipped forward to make a U-shaped settee for entertaining.
  • I was looking closely at the rigging last week and noticed the backstay was very loose (not under sail, just dockside).
  • There was swing and jive in the dance halls, mambo in the bars, boogie-woogie piano playing in the dockside cathouses. DESPERADOES
  • The Gidbinn will reinforce the enchantments that protect the dockside from the evil that infests Kurast.
  • He turned slowly around the room, getting used to the feel of the boat again, with subtle hum of the engines, and the gentle tug as she moved away from the moorings at dockside.
  • White beaches, standing stones, flowers on the machair, Gaelic psalm-singing (which sounds like no other church music in Europe - a Chinese or Mongolian feel to it) and monstrous alcohol consumption on a Saturday night (an Englishman is best advised to avoid Stornoway dockside bars) followed by a real Sabbath - no shops, taxis, bars - you go for a walk or go to church. Archive 2005-06-26
  • Not even the six major fires that raged through the city between 1848 and 1851—many of them set by an organized gang of transplanted Australian criminals known as the Sydney Ducks—could slow the explosive urban development, which stretched from the dockside red-light district known as the Barbary Coast to the nouveau riche mansions on 338-foot-high Nob Hill, located above Chinatown and the financial district. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • Sardines, however, are glorious enough to imagine enjoying their marinated iridescence dockside with soffrito crudo, and neither rabbit ballotine nor game-bird terrine betray any gaminess.
  • Crowds flocked to the dockside to admire the fine array of classics, which included elegant Triumphs and the rather rugged armed vehicles driven by the 14 Signal Regiment.
  • Manoeuvring the boat into the dockside, for instance, is one time when pleasantries will not be appreciated.
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