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Definition of Dockmasters
1. dockmaster [n] - See also: dockmaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dockmasters
Literary usage of Dockmasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The City for the People!: The Best Administration New York Ever Had by Citizens Union of the City of New York, Ivy Ledbetter Lee (1903)
"TAMMANY dockmasters' SINECURES. | One of the most unsatisfactory branches of the
work known to exist when the present administration entered upon its duties ..."
2. Testimony Taken Before the Senate Committee on Cities: Pursuant to (1891)
"Q. The dockmasters are not under your charge ? A. No, sir. ... A. No; dockmasters
performed their duties; the secretaries and clerks on pier A and the ..."
3. The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon (1854)
"... to nominate and appoint a proper person or persons to be dockmaster or
dockmasters, and from time to time to remove, suspend, or dismiss him or them; ..."
4. Bankrupting a Great City: (the Story of New York) by Henry H. Klein (1915)
"Similar thefts were perpetrated on the city docks, the temporary rentals for
which were collected by dockmasters who were liberally paid. ..."
5. Reports of Cases by New York (State). Court of Appeals (1901)
"In view of the fact that the predecessors of the dockmasters were public officers
and that the statute expressly refers to the position of the latter as an ..."
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