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Dockworker

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.

    "Red Hook is fabled dockworker territory, not necessarily for inspirational reasons. The mob violence and union corruption that long defined the piers were part of the underpinnings of the classic 1954 movie “On the Waterfront.”"

  2. 2
    a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port wordnet

Etymology

From dock + worker.

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