Anagrams of: OCKDOWN

• an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial

• any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

• a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats

• a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded

• landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out

• the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair

• a short or shortened tail of certain animals

• come into dock

• deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty

• deduct from someone's wages

• remove or shorten the tail of an animal

• maneuver into a dock

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

• someone who cooks food

• English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

• prepare a hot meal

• prepare for eating by applying heat

• transform and make suitable for consumption by heating

• tamper, with the purpose of deception

• transform by heating

• pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking

• informal term for the nose

• come to a stop

• hit, especially on the head

• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

• pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

• make small marks into the surface of

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• female of domestic cattle:

• mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'

• a large unpleasant woman

• subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

• United States film actress (1938-1981)

• the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

• the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

• English conductor (1869-1944)

• any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

• English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

• a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head

• United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)