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.

• "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."