A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
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Examples for "loader"
Examples for "loader"
1
The breech-loader has manifold advantages over the muzzle-loader in a wild country.
2
The speed loader had six rounds ready to drop into the chamber.
3
The second loader steps forward at a signal from the gun captain.
4
Tail lashing with rage, the queen charged the loader a third time.
5
Peter was already climbing into the heavy metal scoop of a loader.
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The government men were hauling a sodden docker from the polluted waters.
2
The docker stared at him-washe going to sleep on his feet?
3
Deer Janis, you got me the muney for the docker.
4
In full work a docker at the old 7d.
5
The man who had occupied this hole, one Dan Cullen, docker, was dying in hospital.
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
He got beaten every day, in fact, just like every other longshoreman.
2
This was followed by a moment of silence, then a longshoreman's bellow.
3
The pilot, the fisherman and the longshoreman were notorious offenders in this respect.
4
For every housewife and every longshoreman and every Hindu nationalist and every teacher.
5
Jane's language would have made Britney the longshoreman blush down to her boots.
1
He heard the dockworker gasp and felt him clutch at his arm.
2
Perhaps he'd been a dockworker in Miiska before the warehouse burned down.
3
The suspect was named Mateo Judd, a dockworker with an unspectacular criminal record.
4
A dockworker might reasonably show up to an impromptu meeting sweaty and disheveled.
5
He knew he had been the target, not that dockworker.
1
By the end of the week he was a transient lumper on a river steamboat.
2
The best work, when he could get it, was being a lumper down on the wharves.
3
Of course, it must be remembered that along with such frivolous occupations I was trying to get work as wop, lumper, and roustabout.
4
Let an Englishman exchange his bread and beer, and beef, and mutton, for no breakfast, for a lukewarm lumper at dinner, and no supper.
5
It depends on where you decide to make your divisions-whetheryou are a "lumper" or a "splitter," as they say in the biological world.
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.
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The sneaking dock-walloper, I'll take the starch out of him when we land!
2
A beach-comber, a dock-walloper, if there ever was one.
3
A dock-walloper's idea; eh?
4
Well, among other things, I've been a dock-walloper, a beach-comber by force of circumstance, not above settling arguments with fists, or boots, or staves.
5
The wise will cross to the other side of the street when this burly dock- walloper of a font comes galumphing into view.
1
She ate like a dockhand, leaning over the plate and taking big forkfuls.
2
The poorest dockhand has a shirt!
3
She swore like a dockhand as Cahal handed her down, and was rewarded by the amused crease of his eyes.
4
We'll tell you what to say to convince others that you understand how a spacefolder works, as much as a dockhand needs to know.
5
Fishermen and dockhands appeared on the bank beside me, forming a chain with a thick rope wound around their middles.