Dock
Dock verb - To make less in extent or duration.
Tie
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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In one scene, Homer is tying a ship to the dock, but forgets to actually tie the rope to the ship.
Source: Inevitable Waterfall - But... Artificial Stupidity: With that said, friendly AI pilots a nasty tendency to tie down the rearming ship for ages because they'll never stop for it to dock until all enemies are destroyed.
Source: Video Game / Blue Planet -
In the John Ford film, They Were Expendable, there was a scene in which the crew of one of the PT Boats discovers that they didn't properly tie off at the dock and were now floating in the middle of the harbor.
Source: Oh Crap / Film
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