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docker - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun dockers was formed.noun noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
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noun docking , as of tails.noun dockworker .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
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dock (“cut off”) + -er
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dock (“wharf”) + -er
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No, a docker is better than that; it looks like a roller made of plastic (or melamine or something) with spikes on it so when you roll it across dough it makes all the holes.
Lavosh! and... Lindy 2006
There is no reason why a 'docker ' should not grow his own vegetables and be his own dairyman at the same time.
British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals J. Ellis Barker 1909
My learned friend here, I'm sure, will be proud to undertake your defence as a 'docker '; or -- perhaps I should say a
Mr. Justice Raffles 1893
And yesterday even my mild mannered girlfriend used words that you'd usually hear coming from a docker .
Bolton Wanderers v Manchester United - as it happened John Ashdown 2010
The man who had occupied this hole, one Dan Cullen, docker , was dying in hospital.
DAN CULLEN, DOCKER 2010
Yer trouseys is wuth five bob to hany man, an 'a docker ' ud give two an 'six for the shoes, to sy nothin' of the coat an 'cap an' new stoker's singlet an 'hother things.
THE DESCENT 2010
"Cawn't wyste 'em, you know," said she; to which the docker nodded, tucking away a couple of crusts himself.
CORONATION DAY 2010
He has been married for almost 45 years to Sandra, a former hairdresser, daughter of a docker and twin sister of Frank Lampard's late mother.
Harry Redknapp: the people's manager | Observer profile 2012
THE REDKNAPP FILEBorn 2 March 1947 in Poplar, east London, the only child of Henry Redknapp, a docker , and his wife, Violet.
Harry Redknapp: the people's manager | Observer profile 2012
The docker who had already spoken shifted on his chair and said:
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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