Meanings of dock laborer in English

Sometimes he is a gold-digger, sometimes a dock laborer, sometimes a soldier, sometimes a sailor, but whatever he is he wears patent-leather boots.

News comes from Hamburg that the strike of the dock laborers is over.

Here were dock laborers, seamen and riverside loafers, lascars, Chinese, Arabs, negroes and dagoes.

The two men were rough looking fellows and reminded Dave of dock laborers or loiterers.

The porters who carry your baggage from the landing stage to the steamer do more work than three English dock laborers.

A very intelligent man is working with two or three others to organise the London dock laborers on the new lines.

These men were not soldiers, though they wore khaki, but rough east-enders, dock laborers, most of them, with lawless anarchic blood in their veins.