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Definition of Dockworkers
1. dockworker [n] - See also: dockworker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dockworkers
Literary usage of Dockworkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governor by Richard A. Hogarty (2001)
"Most of the dockworkers and stevedores in Philadelphia were Irish. ... Shipowners
often played black and Irish dockworkers off against each other to ..."
2. Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governor by Richard A. Hogarty (2001)
"Most of the dockworkers and stevedores in Philadelphia were Irish. ... Shipowners
often played black and Irish dockworkers off against each other to ..."
3. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1913)
"dockworkers strike. Street car employes strike. Many hurt in riots; cars smashed.
... D 31 See alsa COAL MINERS' STRIKE; dockworkers' STRIKE; INSURANCE ACT. ..."
4. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"But when no ships left the harbor, when no ore was brought to the smelting-ovens,
when dockworkers and SPHERES OF INFLUENCE stevedores were thrown out of ..."
5. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1902)
"The poorest are the casual dockworkers, gutter merchants, cheap basket makers,
market porters and fish curers among the men ; and fur pullers, sack, ..."
6. National Drug Control Policy: Interdiction Efforts in Florida and the edited by J. Dennis Hastert (2001)
"... to combat the illegal flow of drugs into this country via South Florida ports
and blamed the crisis on dockworkers at the Port of Miami and other South! ..."
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