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






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"Docker" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought it would be not unhelpful, would make a little ring of gentle-heartedness around us, some of us—those of us who live protected lives and pray such rich, versatile prayers, if we would stop and think what a docker would have to do, what arrangements a docker would have to make before he could enjoy praying with us—falling back into our beautiful, soft, luxurious ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee

... once heard him, during this visit, exclaim with the utmost vehemence 'I hate a Docker.' BLAKEWAY. Northcote (Life of Reynolds, i. 118) says that Reynolds took Johnson to dine at a house where 'he devoured so large a quantity of new honey and of clouted cream, besides drinking large potations of ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill



Words linked to "Docker" :   dock worker, dock-walloper, loader, dockhand, jack, dockworker, stevedore, lumper, laborer, dock, longshoreman, labourer, manual laborer



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