dockhand

Other forms of dockhand

plural

dockhands·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dockhand

What does dockhand mean?

dockhand means "a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port".

How many syllables are in dockhand?

dockhand has 2 syllables: dock-hand. The stress falls on "dock".

What is another word for dockhand?

Close synonyms include stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dock worker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dockhand a common word?

dockhand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.