disable dock in mavericks?

is there a way to disable the dock in mavericks, even if temporarily? it keeps bouncing up when i've got stuff running in full screen and i get down near the bottom of the screen, and i end up clicking on something i don't want and it takes me out of my full-screen app to whatever it is i clicked on. it's incredibly annoying at best, almost a dealbreaker at worst...

i know in previous versions you could change the auto-hide delay to be some huge number, and that would usually fix it...but those settings seem to have no effect in mavericks...is there any way to do it? even if i could do something like turn the dock off with command-option-D while i'm in full screen, that would be fine...but it doesn't work. even if i've hidden the dock, when i'm in a full screen app the dock keeps jumping back up at me...