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Meanings of dock labourer in English
Synonyms
Examples for "stevedore"
Examples for "stevedore"
1
He was built like a greyhound with the shoulders of a stevedore.
2
For twenty years he had fought nothing bigger than a drunken stevedore.
3
I had it from the stevedore, who has been loading their cargo.
4
One third of the American stevedore force in Europe was Negro.
5
Well, if this ain't fortunate. The stevedore's services were required for Mammy Easter.
1
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.
2
News comes from Hamburg that the strike of the dock laborers is over.
3
Here were dock laborers, seamen and riverside loafers, lascars, Chinese, Arabs, negroes and dagoes.
4
The two men were rough looking fellows and reminded Dave of dock laborers or loiterers.
5
The porters who carry your baggage from the landing stage to the steamer do more work than three English dock laborers.
1
One limb was small and boyish with manicured nails and the other was flat and scarred; a dock worker's hand.
2
Belfast: Mr. McMullan describes scene on one of the harbour quays and introduces a Naval officer and a dock worker.
3
The parents of these Abbey rebels included a printer, a dressmaker, a journalist, a grocer, a dock worker, and a midwife.
4
The city's dock worker's union opposes putting the arena in SoDo, saying it would clog area roads and drive away shipping business.
5
Melvin, a 250lb dock worker, emits a snore of 88 decibels, which is equivalent to the noise of a motorcycle being revved at full throttle.
Usage of dock labourer in English
1
On his right lay a black-haired, yellow-faced dock labourer with a broken nose.
2
The most brilliant men are amenable to the temptations of the savage and of the dock labourer.
3
His father is a dock labourer.
4
Ask the men and they will tell you something like the following story, which gives the simple experiences of a dock labourer.
5
Many people complain about dock labourers that they will not work after four o'clock.
6
Indeed, some 500 dock labourers were discharged because they would not be sworn in.
7
The porters, sweepers, and dock labourers went without bread and garlic, that they might pay for their places.
8
Not that anybody read Moorsom at the Antipodes, but everybody had heard of him-women ,children ,docklabourers, cabmen.
9
How could he find dock labourers willing to load and unload his ships for "starvation wages"?
10
Some 15 dock labourers staying at a lodge on Patrick Street in Cork city can now also be traced.
11
"So we do the East Enders, and the Lancashire operatives and the dock labourers."
12
Shutting the door on his failure, he hurried off with his dog to lose himself among the stevedores and dock labourers on West Street.
13
The young doctors had flung their coats off and were handling the heaviest stuff like dock labourers at trade union rates, though with more agility.
14
They jostled each other for preference, they clamoured for notice as I have seen the dock labourers clamouring for a job at the London docks.