Dock Delay

I currently have my Mac set to automatically show/hide the dock, since that frees up a few centimeters of screen space for other tasks.
Problem is, there's a handful of applications which I use which involve a horizontal scroll bar. Unfortunately, when I try to drag the horizontal scroll bar in these apps, half the time the dock reappears and I end up inadvertently rearranging items on the dock rather than scrolling as intended. [My dock is on the bottom of the screen].
Is there a global setting that can be invoked which delays the dock from showing up for a second or two when the mouse hits the bottom of the screen?
[n.b. I am still using Monterey, but I assume any such setting would probably be available on all Macs].
André
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