DOCKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does docker mean? 

• DOCKER (noun)
  The noun DOCKER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DOCKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOCKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dock-walloper; dock worker; docker; dockhand; dockworker; loader; longshoreman; lumper; stevedore

Hypernyms ("docker" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Derivation:

dock (maneuver into a dock)

dock (come into dock)

 Context examples 

Have you ever seen the London dockers fighting like wild beasts for a chance to work?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There’s something throbbing in my head now, like a docker’s hammer, but that morning I seemed to have all Niagara whizzing and buzzing in my ears.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)