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A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
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dockhand
Word definitions for dockhand in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Someone who works at a dock.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
dockhand \dockhand\ n. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port. Syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dock worker, dock-walloper, lumper.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore , loader , longshoreman , docker , dock worker , dock-walloper , lumper ]
Usage examples of dockhand.
Danaet, the factor would lecture her about dallying with a dockhand until the waves ran backwards.
Trilby halted in her conversation with a Degvar dockhand and watched the two men salute each other.
The dockhand made a short motion with his chin to where Rhis stood talking to Gurdan.
Sailors and dockhands, soldiers of fortune looking for an outward-bound ship, ladies of negotiable virtue, and the usual assortment of thugs and thieves.
Merchants, sailors, and dockhands milled about the rotting wooden docks, busying themselves with a dizzying variety of wares.
The tavern was frequented by sailors and dockhands, free-swords in search of adventure, merchant captains, bored local dandies, and bemused travelers from a hundred ports and a dozen races.
Kentucky accents or a Gaelic lift to their voices sweated side by side with black dockhands unloading cotton and woolen goods, raw cotton, boxes of coffee, liquor, spices from the half dozen steamboats currently in port.
Edge and Yount took the job of driving the wagons one by one to the ship's side and there unhitching the horses, while the dockhands attached grapple cables between wagon and boom, and the donkeymen on deck worked a steam capstan to haul each wagon up and swing it inboard.