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NOUN
  1. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

How To Use dockhand In A Sentence

  • I leaned on the railing and watched teams of dockhands transferring crates to the waiting wagons.
  • He lifts huge steel containers of cargo from ship to shore with a 130-foot-tall crane - moving far more cargo in an hour than he moved in a day as a dockhand 30 years ago.
  • Making a cursory inquiry to several of the dockhands about if any of the ships needed a strong body, he slowly made his way down the pier.
  • On a good night, weren't both establishments bursting with dockhands, sailors, river pirates, and errant swells?
  • As readers and writers, legislators and city council members, farmers and dockhands, workers and employers, Northern men and women responded to this question with a public debate over the possible outcomes of emancipation.
  • He was built more like a dockhand than a descendant of local aristocracy. The Glass Rainbow
  • On shore dockhands caught the lines and shipyard guards with firearms held at port watched as they pulled the ship in and made it fast.
  • Houseboating on Lake Powell, in the middle of the Great American Desert, is a totally different experience so we dutifully followed the dockhand's instructions on anchoring our boat - ‘Use a shovel,’ he said.
  • I could never see Dr. Sofen making some crack about how she parphrased "has to hurry back for some marathon sex with a dockhand. THUNDERBOLTS #111 Marvel Comics, 2007
  • Douglas Tanglewood ushered them all into a stylish Calash Coach, which possessed a hard, covered roof and curtains to screen them from outside scrutiny, since they were dressed as roughly as any dockhand out of Stepney. Ripping Time
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