docker

[ dok-er ]

/ ˈdɒk ər /

a laborer on shipping docks; longshoreman.

Origin of docker

First recorded in 1755–65; dock¹ + -er¹

docker ²

[ dok-er ]

/ ˈdɒk ər /

a person or thing that docks or cuts short.

First recorded in 1800–10; dock² + -er¹

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

docker ¹

/ (ˈdɒkə) /

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

docker ²

/ (ˈdɒkə) /

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