dockhand

[dok-hand]

noun

1. a dockworker.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dockhand¹

First recorded in 1915–20; dock ¹ + hand

Example Sentences

The area drew a scruffy mix of loggers and dockhands, and Skid Row eventually became shorthand for any part of a city where drunks and vagabonds gathered.

From Los Angeles Times

He was just “a sick old man” who talked like a dockhand and indulged in hyperbole.

From Los Angeles Times

We asked a dockhand where the jail was, and he told us straight up Union.

From Literature

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

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