Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dockhand
1 sense of dockhand
Sense 1
stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper -- (a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port)
=> laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack -- (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)