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Ducking vs Docking - What's the difference?

ducking | docking |

As verbs the difference between ducking and docking

is that ducking is while docking is .

As nouns the difference between ducking and docking

is that ducking is (uncountable) the action of the verb to duck while docking is the process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.

ducking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to duck .
  • (countable) An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc).
    • They gave him a ducking in the river as a punishment.

    Derived terms

    * ducking stool

    docking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia docking) (en noun)
  • The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
  • The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
  • (spacecraft) The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
  • (colloquial, LGBT) The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.