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Cutting the Knot: The Rocinante is held in place by docking clamps and none of the codes the crew knows works.
Source: Series / The Expanse - The practice was partially abolished in part to protests raised by Anne Sewell's famous novel, Black Beauty, which also delivers some scathing criticism on practices like "docking" the tails of horses and the tails and ears of dogs (that is, cutting bits of them off) to make them look more stylish.
Source: Fashion Hurts
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Docking and Cutting. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cutting/docking
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