dockside

[ dok-sahyd ]

noun

1. land or area adjoining a dock:

   We were at the dockside to greet them.

adjective

1. pertaining to or located at or near a dockside:

   dockside warehouses; a dockside fire.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dockside¹

First recorded in 1885–90; dock ¹ + side ¹

Example Sentences

Such mismatches help explain why containers destined to travel by rail sit dockside for an average of eight days, up from two before the pandemic.

From Washington Post

Following the city’s instructions that all incoming ships should be searched for books, which were required to be copied for the library, it is feasible that these seized books had been temporarily stored in the dockside warehouses.

From Time

Across the street from Dockside and the VFW, another 30-foot sailboat was capsized.

From The Daily Beast

Beside a trip to Kissimmee, Fla., his electioneering bar crawl took him last weekend to the Gators Dockside Bar in Orlando.

From The Daily Beast

Surely, the newfound cooperation of dockside racketeers had a chilling effect on German espionage.

From The Daily Beast

Then, suddenly, he started away, and the mate was following him down the darkening dockside street.

From Project Gutenberg

There's not a familiar face on deck, other than maybe one I've seen in a dockside bar, but never one whose name I've known.

From Project Gutenberg

Indeed, in most dockside resorts it was a common thing for pirates and honest seamen to fraternize with perfect goodwill.

From Project Gutenberg

Then he took the seaman with him and passed quickly down to one of the larger warehouses by the dockside.

From Project Gutenberg

Short on the stroke of 'turn to' they straggle down the dockside to start the round anew.

From Project Gutenberg