docker

[ dok-er ]

/ ˈdɒk ər /

noun

a laborer on shipping docks; longshoreman.

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Origin of docker

First recorded in 1755–65; dock¹ + -er¹

Words nearby docker

docile, dock, dock-walloper, dockage, docken, docker, docket, dockhand, docking bridge, docking keel, docking station

Definition for docker (2 of 2)

docker²

[ dok-er ]

/ ˈdɒk ər /

noun

a person or thing that docks or cuts short.

Origin of docker

First recorded in 1800–10; dock² + -er¹

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Example sentences from the Web for docker

The Hamburg docker and his brother of London do not put national interests before the primary claims of caste.
The Great Illusion|Norman Angell
I got a few packets of these from a docker who had them from a South American merchant in a roundabout way.
The Secret of the League|Ernest Bramah
At the end of the first day the numbers were—Docker, 246; Waters, 138: and Mr. Waters then retired from the contest.
Worcestershire in the Nineteenth Century|T. C. Turberville
The docker is trying to get through hungering for something to eat, to arrange gradually to have his hungers move on.
Crowds|Gerald Stanley Lee

Docker,Please wel you send me somting for the pain in my feet and what you proismed to send my little boy.
Dr. Grenfell's Parish|Norman Duncan

British Dictionary definitions for docker (1 of 2)

docker¹

/ (ˈdɒkə) /

noun

British a man employed in the loading or unloading of shipsUS and Canadian equivalent: longshoreman See also stevedore

British Dictionary definitions for docker (2 of 2)

docker²

/ (ˈdɒkə) /

noun

a person or thing that docks something, such as the tail of a horse

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