These are the meanings of the letters DKROC when you unscramble them.
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Cord (n.)
A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
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Cord (n.)
A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
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Cord (n.)
Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
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Cord (n.)
Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
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Cord (n.)
See Chord.
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Cord (v. t.)
To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
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Cord (v. t.)
To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
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Cord (imp. & p. p.)
of Core
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Cork (n.)
The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
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Cork (n.)
A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
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Cork (n.)
A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
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Cork (v. t.)
To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
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Cork (v. t.)
To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
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Dock (n.)
A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.
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Dock (n.)
The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting.
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Dock (n.)
A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
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Dock (v. t.)
to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.
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Dock (v. t.)
To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
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Dock (v. t.)
To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.
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Dock (n.)
An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.
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Dock (n.)
The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.
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Dock (n.)
The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.
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Dock (v. t.)
To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.
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Rock (n.)
See Roc.
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Rock (n.)
A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
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Rock (n.)
A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.
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Rock (n.)
Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.
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Rock (n.)
That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.
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Rock (n.)
Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
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Rock (n.)
The striped bass. See under Bass.
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Rock (v. t.)
To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
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Rock (v. t.)
To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.
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Rock (v. i.)
To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
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Rock (v. i.)
To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.