“The ship is able to offload a barge at a destination port without stopping to tie up at a busy dock.”
dock
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
“Does this scenario sound like the 2002 dockworker dispute at West Coast ports prompted by lockouts of longshoremen?”
“Mr Donkin, a retired dockworker, was looking after the siblings while his daughter Andrea Smith, 40, and her husband James Smith, 31, went out for a meal.”
“The comic drama tells the story of a mild-mannered Irish dockworker living in a British settlement in India who is transformed into an exemplary soldier.”
dockland
The land area surrounding a dock, especially the renovated or gentrified areas surrounding a former dock.