WordNet
n. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock-walloper, lumper]
Usage examples of "dock worker".
He could all but see the clutch of the dock worker's hands against a straining breast, a naked thigh, skirts and petticoats lifted high to either side to accommodate him.
When Mara and her two officers had reached the cho-ja hive on her estates, she was joined by ten hand-picked warriors in armor without house markings, and another, a dock worker she had never seen before, who spoke Thuril as his birth tongue.
But imagine you're a Malaysian dock worker living on fish meal and single-cell protein.
When Mara and her two officers hadreached the cho-ja hive on her estates, she was joined by tenhand-picked warriors in armor without house markings,and another, a dock worker she had never seen before, whospoke Thuril as his birth tongue.
She lifted her hand and gazed with horror at the transformation-the pale bronze color was fading to a sickly gray, and the skin on her delicate fingers had grown tougher than a dock worker's.
A dock worker, who held a big packing case, was arguing with a Japanese standing in a doorway.
The angry dock worker put down the case he held, reached in with a brawny arm and pulled.
The entrepreneur in question was a dock worker who'd sunk his whole savings into buying this can of rocks from a tc'a trader and hiring tc'a to assemble them into tolerably high-pressure methane/nitrogen globes.
Because one second before he fired, Remo had coiled the barrel of the Browning into a corkscrew, and by the time the bullet left it, it was spinning toward the dock worker's chest, where it came to rest with a muffled whump.