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Definition of Dockworker
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 Dockworker
1. Noun. A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dockworker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dockworker
Literary usage of Dockworker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. National Drug Control Policy: Interdiction Efforts in Florida and the edited by J. Dennis Hastert (2001)
"The suitcases were eventually delivered by a dockworker who smuggled them off
the vessel. The crew member, dock worker, and three other accomplices were ..."
2. A Shorter Working Day by Robert Abbott Hadfield, Henry de Beltgens Gibbins (1892)
"... Mr. WG Pearson (dockworker), Mr. J. Macdonald (tailor), Mr. WC Steadman (barge
builder), Aid. HR Taylor, LCC (bricklayer), and Mr. WR Taylor (litho ..."
3. Larue's Maneuvers by James Isaiah Gabbe (2007)
""Hey, Napoleon," McShane rendered like a boozed French dockworker. He wormed up
on one side and Julianne on the other, and they badgered about my "downer" ..."
4. Annual Report of the Chief, Children's Bureau to the Secretary of Labor by United States Children's Bureau, United States, Children's Bureau (1921)
"... bartender, mechanic, carpenter, clerk, stenographer, dockworker, section hand.
The IWW, who in the past have been a great source of worry to the farmer, ..."
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