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Meanings of dock worker in English
A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
Synonyms
Examples for "dock laborer"
Examples for "dock laborer"
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
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.
Usage of dock worker in English
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.
6
Two Hamburg dock workers had been arrested outside my house one night.
7
The pipe- dock workers were gone, and so were the managers and agents.
8
Dock workers sat on ramps along the river bank, checking their phones.
9
Dock workers largely backed the law that passed Congress in May.
10
Noble thugs or dock workers, what matters that? She flicked him a glance.
11
Dock workers are claiming that the might join in and stop working as well.
12
In better weather fishermen, dock workers, and porters lunched here.
13
It was unclear whether or not the two handlers were the two infected dock workers.
14
The union dock workers at those six terminals have been without a contract since September 30.
15
This morning I took refuge from the thin rain in a tea-house with the dock workers.
16
LONDON - Sixteen people were charged yesterday after violence at a rally in support of sacked dock workers.