A stardock needs to be reached via dinghy. A typical stardock can hold about 16 boats with all of the boats' bows pointing inward and toward the center. The stardock is moored to the bottom but not attached to the shore.

The writer referred to [Edward Francis Rimbault] traces the instrument from the ancient lyre, through various mechanical phases, the harp, psaltery, dulcimer, etc. to the clavicitherium—a name compounded from the Latin clavis, a key, and cithera, the name of an ancient instrument of music, which consisted of strings drawn over a sounding wooden surface or bottom, and not unlike the modern guitar. The clavicitherium was an oblong box, containing a number of strings arranged in a triangular form, and which were struck by a plectrum—a little mallet, commonly made of ivory, with which the ancients beat the strings of the lyre.

Well Sergio belongs to me; since you had the balls to put your hands on my property I figured they had to be pretty big.”

Pompey is the pride of the local draghounds—no very great flier, as his build will show, but a staunch hound on a scent.