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[ US /ˈdɑˌkwɝkɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

How To Use dockworker In A Sentence

  • In the meantime, dockworkers around the world had begun to mobilize in solidarity.
  • First, the Liverpool dockworkers should not be seen as emblematic of a new form of labor internationalism.
  • Does this scenario sound like the 2002 dockworker dispute at West Coast ports prompted by lockouts of longshoremen?
  • Lacking the special wrenches required to remove the bolts that held the wings on, the dockworkers had employed cold chisels on the bolt heads.
  • On December 5, as dockworkers and cartage men on distant St. Pierre marked the last day of Prohibition with a funeral cortege led by French and American flags at half mast, Sam Bronfman was already sitting on the four hundred thousand gallons of whiskey in the Rossville warehouse that had been part of the deal. LAST CALL
  • The captain yelled to the dockworkers to secure the lines and gave the engineer the okay to shut down the propulsion. FALLOUT
  • Other dockworkers use lift trucks to warehouse the cargo. Kill the Irishman
  • Many artists such as Victor Arnautoff, Adelyne Cross Eriksson and Louise Gilbert commemorated the events leading to the 1934 General Strike, while artists like Pele deLappe worked painting signs and cartooning from the moment the dockworkers went on strike. Paul Boden: Art and Activism: 1930s and Today
  • Archie Brown was first a ship scaler, and then a longshoreman - a dockworker all his life.
  • Each one was dressed in the heavy shirts and pants of the port dockworkers, but on their belts they all had long daggers stuck into thick leather sheaths.
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