diff --git a/docs/reference/commandline/cli.md b/docs/reference/commandline/cli.md
index d2218667d7..2eba7636e1 100644
--- a/docs/reference/commandline/cli.md
+++ b/docs/reference/commandline/cli.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ or execute `docker help`:
              docker daemon [ --help | ... ]
              docker [ --help | -v | --version ]
 
-        -H, --host=[]: The socket(s) to bind to in daemon mode, specified using one or more tcp://host:port, unix:///path/to/socket, fd://* or fd://socketfd.
+        -H, --host=[]: The socket(s) to talk to the Docker daemon in the format of tcp://host:port/path, unix:///path/to/socket, fd://* or fd://socketfd.
 
       A self-sufficient runtime for Linux containers.
 
diff --git a/man/docker.1.md b/man/docker.1.md
index 41329deb3b..18df3b5cf2 100644
--- a/man/docker.1.md
+++ b/man/docker.1.md
@@ -36,10 +36,12 @@ To see the man page for a command run **man docker <command>**.
 **-D**, **--debug**=*true*|*false*
   Enable debug mode. Default is false.
 
-**-H**, **--host**=[unix:///var/run/docker.sock]: tcp://[host:port] to bind or
+**-H**, **--host**=[unix:///var/run/docker.sock]: tcp://[host]:[port][path] to bind or
 unix://[/path/to/socket] to use.
   The socket(s) to bind to in daemon mode specified using one or more
-  tcp://host:port, unix:///path/to/socket, fd://* or fd://socketfd.
+  tcp://host:port/path, unix:///path/to/socket, fd://* or fd://socketfd.
+  If the tcp port is not specified, then it will default to either `2375` when
+  `--tls` is off, or `2376` when `--tls` is on, or `--tlsverify` is specified.
 
 **-l**, **--log-level**="*debug*|*info*|*warn*|*error*|*fatal*""
   Set the logging level. Default is `info`.