Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) to have sexual intercourse; thus dock the dell, to deflower a young woman.

c.1535		R. Copland Hye way to the Spyttel House Eiii: Toure the patryng coue in the darkman cace / Docked the dell for a coper meke.
1573		T. Tusser Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 23: Put dicing among them, and docking the dell: and by and by after, of beggerie smell.
1592		Groundworke of Conny-catching A3(b): There was a Patrico and a nosegent, he took his Jockam in his famble and a wapping he went, hee dockt the Dell.
1608		Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Docked the Dell, for a Coper meke, / His wach shall seng a Prounces Nab-chete.
1611		Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: O I wud lib all the darkmans [...] And scour the queer cramp ring, / And couch till a palliard docked my dell.
1637		Dekker ‘Canting Rhymes’ in Eng. Villainies (8th edn) N3: The Patrico Cove in the Darkmans case, Docked the Dell for a Copper make.
1648		Dekker ‘Canters Dict.’ in Eng. Villainies (9th edn).
1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 49: Dock, To ---.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Dock c. to lie with a woman. The Cull Docks the Dell in the Darkmans the Rogue lay with a Wench all night.
1700		‘The Country-man’s Delight’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy II 126: The Night is Spent / With more content, / For then we all agree, / To Cock it and Dock it, / Smock it and Knock it, / Under the Green-wood Tree.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 126: For then we all agree; / To Cock it and Dock it, / Smock and knock it, / Under the Green-wood Tree.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Dock. To lie with a woman. The cull docked the dell all the darkmans; the fellow laid with the wench all night.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 86: Cueillir la fleur = to deflower; ‘to dock’.