Definition of Docker

1. Noun. A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.


Definition of Docker

1. Noun. One who performs docking, as of tails. ¹

2. Noun. A dockworker. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Docker

1. a dock worker [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Docker

docimacy
docimastic
docimasy
docimology
docity
dock
dock-cress
dock-walloper
dock worker
dockable
dockage
dockages
docked
docken
dockens
docker (current term)
dockers
docket
docketed
docketing
docketing software
dockets
dockhand
dockhands
docking facility
docking fee
docking protein
docking station
docking stations

Literary usage of Docker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Unemployment: A Problem of Industry by William Henry Beveridge Beveridge (1912)
"AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS OF CASUAL docker, During seventeen of the thirty-two months covered by the return, the average weekly earnings were fifteen ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Potter, trustee, the said Henry O. docker and Jobo M. Peeples, jr , being husbands of two of tbe daughters of said Orval Pool; and Harriet M. Peeples, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Robert Belt (1820)
"docker against HORNER. AN estate had been sold for payment of debts, and the money had been Mr. Mansfield moved, that the Accountant General might pay some ..."

4. History of Australia by George William Rusden (1897)
"18 In like manner at Port Phillip the Eev. J. docker, of ... docker wrote to Gipps, who at once cancelled the ticket-of-leave of a man who had been one of ..."

5. The People of the Abyss by Jack London (1903)
"CHAPTER XIII DAN CULLEN, docker Life scarce can tread majestically Foul court and fever-stricken alley. — THOMAS ASHE. I STOOD, yesterday, in a room in one ..."

6. A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond by Henry Fishwick (1884)
"Admon 1676 Dawson, John, of docker, L Admon 1590 Dawson, John, of Preston, A ... Admon 1672 Dawson, Josiah, of Cartmell, Church Town, F 1644 Dawson, ..."

7. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1899)
"Keen, 655—674 ; SC 3 LJ (NS) Ch. 200.) ***». '19' docker r. SOMES (1). iss4. Y>oth in a trade or adventure of his own, ..."

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