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docker
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore , loader , longshoreman , dockhand , dock worker , dock-walloper , lumper ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. One who performs docking, as of tails. Etymology 2 n. A dockworker.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Docker is a locational surname from Docker, Westmoreland and Docker, Lancashire . For "The Painters and Dockers / Moran Family", see Melbourne gangland killings . The Australian trade union, see Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After another short chat they joined the exodus of dockers leaving the ship. ▪ He was a docker , living in Artillery Lane off Bishopsgate, not far from Houndsditch. ▪ I remember one feller that came in - a respectable buck, a ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
docker \docker\ n. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port. Syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, dockhand, dock worker, dock-walloper, lumper.
Usage examples of docker.
Most of them were human, apart from a gigant docker and a couple of saurs.
The docker opposite the totter had started scratching now and Sam felt his back itching.
He looked oddly out of place in his Dockers and pale orange button-down shirt, as if someone had cut him out of an ad in a Seattle newspaper and pasted him into the wrong background.
He threaded his way past the gang of dockers busy at the cranes unloading the barge that had brought the drop capsules in from the Zone, and glanced sharply into the open cargo space.
Behind him, the flat-faced giant made a gesture, and the dockers shifted position suddenly, so that they encircled the Visiting Speaker and his staff.
She dodged among bollards and barrels, carts and trucks, dockers and hauliers, the crowd less dense but its components faster and heavier.
Lydia and Volkov, the dockers, and a similar number of students all ascended the stairs inside to the radio room.
One young woman began eagerly taping interviews with the dockers for later transmission.
The folk most likely to be agitated by it are the dockers, and behind them the people who rallied to the rebel elements in the Port Authority: the compradores and their employees.
If some of the dockers are swayed by the story, a big part of the plan, one of its thrashed-out selling points, is in big trouble.
The section of the dockers angered by the story have built a popular front in reverse, pulling in a coalition of the discontented and bigoted and scared.
The dockers form a disciplined front rank, and behind them is a disorderly and noisy crowd, like the one that had gathered outside the grogshop but more determined.
The clatter and the rush are the sounds of dockers throwing down pallets hacked and adapted as wooden shields and picking them up and running forward.
The first volley falls mostly on the line of union dockers up front, thudding on the shields, or just behind them, and then the second shower of scrap arrives, this time striking home -- screams, bleeding heads, somebody nearby falls thrashing.
Maintenance shuttles hovered around her, feeding the cluster of dockers on her hull with tools and power for the work being done on the big ship.