Docker

//ˈdɑkɚ// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who performs docking, as of tails.
  2. 2
    Synonym of dockworker.
  3. 3
    a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port wordnet
  4. 4
    One who engages in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district and Westmorland (OS grid ref SD5695).
  2. 2
    A hamlet in Whittington parish, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5774).
  3. 3
    A small town in the Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia.
  4. 4
    An English habitational surname from Old Norse.

Synonyms

All synonyms
dockworkerstevedoredock workerdock-walloperdockhanddockie

Example

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"There’s something throbbing in my head now, like a docker’s hammer, but that morning I seemed to have all Niagara whizzing and buzzing in my ears."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From dock (verb) + -er.

Etymology 2

From dock (noun) + -er.

Etymology 3

Probably from Old Norse dǫkk (“hollow”) + erg (“hill-pasture”).

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