dockhand
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dockhand
Example Sentences
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He was just “a sick old man” who talked like a dockhand and indulged in hyperbole.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
He dropped out of college and drifted to New York, where he worked as a dockhand, dance-hall bouncer, bodyguard and dish washer before returning to Florida in 1957 and enrolling in acting classes.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2018
As a child he worked as a dockhand and shoeshine boy before training as a metal worker.
From Time ● Mar. 16, 2016
“He looked like a cross between a dockhand and a pirate,” she wrote in The Plain Dealer in 1975, reviewing a young musician.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2011
We asked a dockhand where the jail was, and he told us straight up Union.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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