Definition of Dockhands

1. Noun. (plural of dockhand) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dockhands

1. dockhand [n] - See also: dockhand

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dockhands

dock worker
dockable
dockage
dockages
docked
docken
dockens
docker
dockers
docket
docketed
docketing
docketing software
dockets
dockhand
dockhands (current term)
docking facility
docking fee
docking protein
docking station
docking stations
dockings
dockise
dockised
dockises
dockising
dockize
dockized
dockizes

Literary usage of Dockhands

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

1. Five Months in the Argentine from a Woman's Point of View, 1918 to 1919 by Katherine Sophie Dreier (1920)
"One gets the reaction of this mental tiredness towards work in the attitude of the dockhands, one of the lowest forms of labor. ..."

2. An American Diplomat in China by Paul Samuel Reinsch (1922)
"Teachers, students, shopkeepers, chauffeurs, dockhands, all classes of workmen would strike. All China, indeed, would go on strike. ..."

3. The Shortest And Most Convenient Route: Lewis And Clark in Context by Robert S. Cox (2004)
"... wholesalers assembling and dispensing bulk 01 dei v Chipping merchants arranging for their passage, dockhands i .m \mg the orders between warehouses and ..."

4. Gently With the Tides: The Best of Living Aboard by Michael L. Frankel (1990)
"We don't claim to know much about big marinas with hired managers and uniformed dockhands, but we have learned some things about the operation of small ..."

5. Transportation Statistics Annual Report (1997) edited by Marsha Fenn (1998)
"For example, ship captains, mates, sailors, and dockhands are not identified separately. None of these 167400 workers would have been counted as a ..."

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