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noun

docker n. A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.

Synonyms: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, dockhand, dock worker, dock-walloper, lumper.

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Etymology of 'Docker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Docker" Quotes from Famous Books

... my word on it, that from that moment I was not my own master, and it is all like a dim dream when I look back on it. I had been drinking hard of late, and the two things together fairly turned my brain. There's something throbbing in my head now, like a docker's hammer, but that morning I seemed to have all Niagara whizzing and buzzing in ...

— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

Words linked to "Docker" : dock worker, jack, stevedore, manual laborer, dock, laborer, loader, longshoreman, labourer, dock-walloper, dockworker, dockhand