Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A local English name for one or more species of Equisetum, or horsetails, given because some of the kinds are employed in polishing tin cans and other metallic vessels.
  • noun The yellow water-lily, Nuphar luteum: so called from its dock-like leaves and flagon-shaped seed-vessels.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A plant or weed that grows in rivers.
  • noun A species of Equisetum.
  • noun The yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).

Etymologies

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Probably can +‎ dock (see dock ("a plant")). Compare German Kannenkraut ("horsetail"), literally "canweed".

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