单词 | docker |
释义 | dockern.1 1. A dweller in or near a dock; spec. an inhabitant of Devonport, formerly Plymouth Dock. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > other towns Oxonianc1540 Yarmouthian1614 Manchesterian1645 Novocastrian1645 wacker1768 Stratfordian1769 Mancunian1771 docker1791 Yorkist1796 Dicky Sam1820 Brummie1824 Liverpudlian1833 Yarmouth bloater1849 Exonian1871 Grimbarian1886 Cheltonian1887 Plym1913 Hoxtoniana1935 scouse1945 loiner1950 Scouser1959 Wulfrunian1959 Manc1961 pie eater1985 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1762 I. 207 [Johnson:] I am against the Dockers; I am a Plymouth-man. 1870 R. N. Worth Hist. Devonport ix. 100 The oldest living Docker. 2. A labourer in the docks. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > associated shore-based personnel > [noun] > person who loads or unloads ships lumper1785 stevedore1788 docker1887 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > at docks gangsman1740 wharf-man1848 roustabout1860 matey1865 watersider1867 rouster1870 docker1887 wharf-labourer1890 wharf-lumper1906 wharfie1912 docksman1921 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Sept. 2/2 A trade union for dockers. 1889 Times 11 Dec. 9/3 Gross intimidation during the dockers' strike. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2018). dockern.2 1. One who docks the tails of horses, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > curtailment > one who abridger1555 diminisher1601 retrencher1699 amputator1810 docker1810 curtailer1813 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > docking or nicking > docker docker1810 nicker1810 1810 Sporting Mag. 35 263 Croppers, dockers, nickers and trimmers. 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. iii. 70 You..mane-and-tail docker. 2. A stamp used for ‘docking’ or perforating the dough for biscuits. ΚΠ 1874 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021). dockern.3 (See quot.) ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > instructions or briefs instructions1529 breviate1594 brief1631 memorial1729 soup1856 watching brief1886 docker1889 dock brief1909 amicus curiae brief1919 1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang 1891 Strand Mag. 2 89/1 Many young advocates do a brisk trade in what are termed ‘dockers’. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Jan. 6/1 Dock cases, ‘dockers’, as they are called—cases in which you are retained by the prisoner in the dock. 1928 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 10/6 A dock brief... Sometimes it is called a ‘docker’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.11791n.21810n.31889 |
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