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dockhand

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dock·hand  (dkhnd)
n.
A dockworker; a longshoreman.
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Noun1.dockhanddockhand - a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
laborer, labourer, manual laborer, jack - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor


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College student Svihovec and high schooler Crociata, who were working as dockhands at the marina, witnessed the accident.
Without a pause, "Cute dockhands," said Kelly, as the family erupted in laughter.
Hank Davis, one of the rural "idlers" among the dockhands, admits to Bill Sampson that he has "'never seed sich a booty in [his] life,"' to which Sampson "meditativeiy" responds," 'Strikes me, Hank, thet thet female's got a black streak in her somewhar'" (41).
 
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