Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dockworker; a longshoreman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who works at a
dock .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
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Examples
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Legend has a dockhand making the rounds of the moored fishing boats and crying out, "Chip in, chip in"—which in a heavy Italian accent became "cioppino"—while gathering the makings of the common daily meal.
The Catchiest Fish Stew Gail Monaghan 2011
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He was built more like a dockhand than a descendant of local aristocracy.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He was built more like a dockhand than a descendant of local aristocracy.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He was built more like a dockhand than a descendant of local aristocracy.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He was built more like a dockhand than a descendant of local aristocracy.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I could never see Dr. Sofen making some crack about how she paraphrased "has to hurry back for some marathon sex with a dockhand."
THUNDERBOLTS #111 Marvel Comics, 2007 David Campbell 2007
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I could never see Dr. Sofen making some crack about how she parphrased "has to hurry back for some marathon sex with a dockhand."
THUNDERBOLTS #111 Marvel Comics, 2007 David Campbell 2007
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Maybrick's pulse flared like the lightning overhead as he stood there in the darkness, listening to the rustle of skirts and clothing hastily switched about, the sharp sounds of the dockhand shifting his hobnailed boots on the pavement as he pressed the cheap trollop back into a convenient corner, the heavy breaths and meaty sounds of flesh coming together, slow and rhythmic and hard.
Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000
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Douglas Tanglewood ushered them all into a stylish Calash Coach, which possessed a hard, covered roof and curtains to screen them from outside scrutiny, since they were dressed as roughly as any dockhand out of Stepney.
Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000
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Hurry, she must be thinking, hurry up and finish, I'm drunk and need a bed for the night and they'll be along with the money for the letters soon, so get on with it and spend your spunk, you great ugly lout of a dockhand ...
Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000
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