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Noun: dockworker  'dók,wur-ku(r)
  1. A labourer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
    "The dockworker efficiently moved cargo from the ship to the dock";
    - stevedore, loader, docker [Brit], dockhand, dock worker, dock-walloper, lumper, longshoreman [N. Amer], wharfie [Austral, NZ, informal]

Derived forms: dockworkers, dock workers

Type of: jack, laborer [US], labourer [Brit, Cdn], manual laborer [US], manual labourer [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Dockworker