Cryptic crossword clue
Medic and ruler cutting back 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DOCKING

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The straight part
We know that "cutting back" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cutting back = docking.
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What does DOCKING mean?

DOCKING verb
  1. To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
  2. To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
  3. To cut off, bar, or destroy.
DOCKING verb
  1. To land at a harbour.
  2. To join two moving items.
  3. To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
  4. To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
DOCKING verb
  1. To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
DOCKING noun
  1. The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
  2. The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
  3. The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
  4. The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.
  5. A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

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