Occupation of loading and unloading ships.
1Sometimes he is a gold-digger, sometimes a dock laborer, sometimes a soldier, sometimes a sailor, but whatever he is he wears patent-leather boots.
2News comes from Hamburg that the strike of the dock laborers is over.
3Here were dock laborers, seamen and riverside loafers, lascars, Chinese, Arabs, negroes and dagoes.
4The two men were rough looking fellows and reminded Dave of dock laborers or loiterers.
5The porters who carry your baggage from the landing stage to the steamer do more work than three English dock laborers.
6A very intelligent man is working with two or three others to organise the London dock laborers on the new lines.
7These men were not soldiers, though they wore khaki, but rough east-enders, dock laborers, most of them, with lawless anarchic blood in their veins.
Translations for dock laborer