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n. A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.
Usage examples of "dockworker".
Let it all get past this chokepoint, follow it over the bridge, then overtake the more vulnerable sections and join up with the dockworkers for the final potential flashpoint.
The few people who passed by were fisherfolk, net-menders, dockworkers, and the other types one would expect to see near the docks, and James prayed he might catch sigh of a constable before he went too much farther.
I line up some snitches and a couple of dockworkers, the sort of blokes I employed before, as if I were replacing those who were killed or fled, while at the same time I was quietly setting up a real ring of agents?
A handful of thieves and dockworkers screamed at a man by a stout door in the opposite wall.
Now nearly a third of the dockworkers and the crewmen of the many ships that called Palmaris their home port were Behrenese.
Just before they reach the long front of the quays, about twenty dockworkers detach themselves from the side of a building and fall in beside them.
But there was one man, sitting by the window talking to some old seamen or dockworkers, who did look familiar.
Mobile, Alabama, in 1867, Negro longshoremen in Charleston, dockworkers in Savannah.
Scattered among the dockworkers and tourists, he spotted plain-clothes detectives trying to look unobtrusive.
An Escobaran business suit in red silk, a Barrayaran quasi-military tunic and piped trousers, ship knits, a Betan sarong and sandals, a ragged jacket and shirt and pants suitable for a down-on-his-luck dockworker anywhere.
Central Rail stevedore-slaves, dockworkers, and press-ganged clerks lay about in various stages of collapse.
Sailors, dockworkers, and warehousemen came to the Badger for a drink and maybe a little talk, for a game of stones or darts.