Noun: dockhand 'dók,hand
- A labourer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
"The dockhand efficiently moved cargo from the ship to the dock";
- stevedore, loader, docker [Brit], dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper, longshoreman [N. Amer], wharfie [Austral, NZ, informal]
Derived forms: dockhands
Type of: jack, laborer [US], labourer [Brit, Cdn], manual laborer [US], manual labourer [Brit, Cdn]