These are the meanings of the letters PODDOCK when you unscramble them.
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Cook (v. i.)
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
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Cook (v. t.)
To throw.
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Cook (n.)
One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
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Cook (n.)
A fish, the European striped wrasse.
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Cook (v. t.)
To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
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Cook (v. t.)
To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
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Cook (v. i.)
To prepare food for the table.
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Coop (n.)
A barrel or cask for liquor.
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Coop (n.)
An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
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Coop (n.)
A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
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Coop (v. t.)
To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.
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Coop (v. t.)
To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
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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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Dodo (n.)
A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.
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Pock (n.)
A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.
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Poco (adv.)
A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco piu allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow.
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Pood (n.)
A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.