noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Someone who works at a dock.
2. 2
   a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

dock workerdock-walloperdockerdockworkerloaderlumper

Etymology

From dock + hand.

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