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Definition of Docker
1. Noun. A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
Generic synonyms: Jack, Laborer, Labourer, Manual Laborer
Derivative terms: Dock, Dock, Load, Load
Definition of Docker
1. Noun. One who performs docking, as of tails. ¹
2. Noun. A dockworker. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Docker
1. a dock worker [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Docker
Literary usage of Docker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unemployment: A Problem of Industry by William Henry Beveridge Beveridge (1912)
"AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS OF CASUAL docker, During seventeen of the thirty-two
months covered by the return, the average weekly earnings were fifteen ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Potter, trustee, the said Henry O. docker and Jobo M. Peeples, jr , being husbands
of two of tbe daughters of said Orval Pool; and Harriet M. Peeples, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Robert Belt (1820)
"docker against HORNER. AN estate had been sold for payment of debts, and the
money had been Mr. Mansfield moved, that the Accountant General might pay some ..."
4. History of Australia by George William Rusden (1897)
"18 In like manner at Port Phillip the Eev. J. docker, of ... docker wrote to
Gipps, who at once cancelled the ticket-of-leave of a man who had been one of ..."
5. The People of the Abyss by Jack London (1903)
"CHAPTER XIII DAN CULLEN, docker Life scarce can tread majestically Foul court
and fever-stricken alley. — THOMAS ASHE. I STOOD, yesterday, in a room in one ..."
6. A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond by Henry Fishwick (1884)
"Admon 1676 Dawson, John, of docker, L Admon 1590 Dawson, John, of Preston, A ...
Admon 1672 Dawson, Josiah, of Cartmell, Church Town, F 1644 Dawson, ..."
7. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1899)
"Keen, 655—674 ; SC 3 LJ (NS) Ch. 200.) ***». '19' docker r. SOMES (1). iss4.
Y>oth in a trade or adventure of his own, ..."
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