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Docker   /dˈɑkər/   Listen
Docker

noun
1.
A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.  Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore.






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"Docker" Quotes from Famous Books



... Walter Parnell, William Parnell, Margaret Roades, John West, Francis West, vidua, Thomas Dayhurst, Robert Mathews, Arthur Gouldsmith, Robert Williams, Morice Loyd, Aron Conway, William Sutton, Richard Greene, Mathew Haman, Samuell Davies, John Thomas, John Docker, Abram Wood, Michaell Lupworth, John Davies, Lewis Baly, James Daries, Alice Holmes, Henry Barlow, Thomas Button, Edmond Whitt, Zacharia Crispe, John Burland, Thomas Hawkins, Thomas Phillips, Paul Reinolds, Nicholas Smith, Elizabeth ...
— Colonial Records of Virginia • Various

... holiday, and, perhaps, the dress-circle instead of the stalls at a theatre. To a man with L200 a week the loss of L20 a week hardly makes any difference at all. He may grumble; he may drop a motor, or a yacht, but in his ordinary daily life he feels no change. To a docker making twenty shillings a week the difference of two shillings is not merely important, it is vital. The addition of it may mean three rooms for the family instead of two; it may mean nine shillings a week instead of seven to ...
— Essays in Rebellion • Henry W. Nevinson



Words linked to "Docker" :   stevedore, jack, manual laborer, labourer, dock, laborer



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