Meanings of dockhand in English

The government men were hauling a sodden docker from the polluted waters.

The docker stared at him-washe going to sleep on his feet?

Deer Janis, you got me the muney for the docker.

In full work a docker at the old 7d.

The man who had occupied this hole, one Dan Cullen, docker, was dying in hospital.

He was built like a greyhound with the shoulders of a stevedore.

For twenty years he had fought nothing bigger than a drunken stevedore.

I had it from the stevedore, who has been loading their cargo.

One third of the American stevedore force in Europe was Negro.

Well, if this ain't fortunate. The stevedore's services were required for Mammy Easter.

He got beaten every day, in fact, just like every other longshoreman.

This was followed by a moment of silence, then a longshoreman's bellow.

The pilot, the fisherman and the longshoreman were notorious offenders in this respect.

For every housewife and every longshoreman and every Hindu nationalist and every teacher.

Jane's language would have made Britney the longshoreman blush down to her boots.

He heard the dockworker gasp and felt him clutch at his arm.

Perhaps he'd been a dockworker in Miiska before the warehouse burned down.

The suspect was named Mateo Judd, a dockworker with an unspectacular criminal record.

A dockworker might reasonably show up to an impromptu meeting sweaty and disheveled.

He knew he had been the target, not that dockworker.

By the end of the week he was a transient lumper on a river steamboat.

The best work, when he could get it, was being a lumper down on the wharves.

Of course, it must be remembered that along with such frivolous occupations I was trying to get work as wop, lumper, and roustabout.

Let an Englishman exchange his bread and beer, and beef, and mutton, for no breakfast, for a lukewarm lumper at dinner, and no supper.

It depends on where you decide to make your divisions-whetheryou are a "lumper" or a "splitter," as they say in the biological world.

One limb was small and boyish with manicured nails and the other was flat and scarred; a dock worker's hand.

Belfast: Mr. McMullan describes scene on one of the harbour quays and introduces a Naval officer and a dock worker.

The parents of these Abbey rebels included a printer, a dressmaker, a journalist, a grocer, a dock worker, and a midwife.

The city's dock worker's union opposes putting the arena in SoDo, saying it would clog area roads and drive away shipping business.

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.

The sneaking dock-walloper, I'll take the starch out of him when we land!

A beach-comber, a dock-walloper, if there ever was one.

A dock-walloper's idea; eh?

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.

The wise will cross to the other side of the street when this burly dock- walloper of a font comes galumphing into view.