dockernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdɒk.ər/us/ˈdɑː.kɚ/also dockworker, , US also longshoremana person who works at a port, putting goods onto and taking them off ships
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People who work on boats & ships
- cabin crew
- crew member
- deckhand
- gondolier
- hand
- helmsman
- longshoreman
- mariner
- merchant seaman
- pilot
- punter
- run away to sea idiom
- sailor
- sea
- sea dog
- stevedore
- steward
- yachtsman
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Examples from literature
- He was fifty-four and a broken-down docker.
- The dockers crowd at the entrance gate, and curse and turn away when the foreman does not give them a call.
- The fact that the dockers have no courage about their employers may be largely the employers' fault.
- To a docker making twenty shillings a week the difference of two shillings is not merely important, it is vital.
- What would the dockers say if one of these establishments was instituted by the municipality for the loading and unloading of ships?