DORKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dorking mean? 

• DORKING (noun)
  The noun DORKING has 1 sense:

1. an English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled)

  Familiarity information: DORKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DORKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Dorking" is a kind of...):

domestic fowl; fowl; poultry (a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl)

 Context examples 

Now, you remember the sudden end of the engagement between the Honourable Miss Miles and Colonel Dorking?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I saw you first in February. Let every body on the Hill hear me if they can. Let my accents swell to Mickleham on one side, and Dorking on the other. I saw you first in February.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)