as in longshoreman
one who loads and unloads ships at a port
a trade embargo that was especially hard on the nation's dockhands
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Two of the eight tainted Tylenol bottles came from Jewel stores in the northwest suburbs, though neither had passed through the Melrose Park warehouse where Arnold had long worked for Jewel as a dockhand.
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Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
Alhonna is the genesis of the crime drama, where screenwriter Bill Dubuque worked as a dockhand in his youth at the comfortable, somewhat dated, lake retreat.
—Mike and Wendy Pramik, cleveland, 7 July 2022
Just stepping onto the log from the dock, then maintaining balance as the log was pushed out into the water by dockhands with poles, looked like a challenge.
—David G. Molyneaux, miamiherald, 19 Aug. 2017
Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
Alhonna is the genesis of the crime drama, where screenwriter Bill Dubuque worked as a dockhand in his youth at the comfortable, somewhat dated, lake retreat.
—Mike and Wendy Pramik, cleveland, 7 July 2022
Just stepping onto the log from the dock, then maintaining balance as the log was pushed out into the water by dockhands with poles, looked like a challenge.
—David G. Molyneaux, miamiherald, 19 Aug. 2017
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“Dockhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dockhand. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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