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Definition of "dockworker" []

  • A dockhand; a longshoreman. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "dockworker" in a sentence
  • "Brett's Holmes could not have been anything but a detective, whereas Rathbone could easily have been a violinist, a dockworker, an actor."
  • "Danny also had Art bomb a bar owned by one of the union officials who had opposed him during his days as a dockworker."
  • "The man had turned out to be one Charlie Parsons, an out of work dockworker."
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