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Definition of Dockhands
1. dockhand [n] - See also: dockhand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dockhands
Literary usage of Dockhands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Five Months in the Argentine from a Woman's Point of View, 1918 to 1919 by Katherine Sophie Dreier (1920)
"One gets the reaction of this mental tiredness towards work in the attitude of
the dockhands, one of the lowest forms of labor. ..."
2. An American Diplomat in China by Paul Samuel Reinsch (1922)
"Teachers, students, shopkeepers, chauffeurs, dockhands, all classes of workmen
would strike. All China, indeed, would go on strike. ..."
3. The Shortest And Most Convenient Route: Lewis And Clark in Context by Robert S. Cox (2004)
"... wholesalers assembling and dispensing bulk 01 dei v Chipping merchants arranging
for their passage, dockhands i .m \mg the orders between warehouses and ..."
4. Gently With the Tides: The Best of Living Aboard by Michael L. Frankel (1990)
"We don't claim to know much about big marinas with hired managers and uniformed
dockhands, but we have learned some things about the operation of small ..."
5. Transportation Statistics Annual Report (1997) edited by Marsha Fenn (1998)
"For example, ship captains, mates, sailors, and dockhands are not identified
separately. None of these 167400 workers would have been counted as a ..."
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