Dock-walloper, subs. (American).—A loafer; one who loiters about docks
and wharves; also an unemployed emigrant.
1871. De Vere, Americanisms, p. 344.... A dock-walloper is an
object of great contempt to Jack.
Dockyarder, subs. (nautical).—A skulker. Cf., Strawyarder (q.v.).
Dockyard-horse, subs. (naval).—An officer better at correspondence than
at active service.
Doctor, subs. (old).—1. A false die; sometimes a manipulated card.—See
To put the doctor on one.
1688. Shadwell, Sq. of Alsatia, I., in wks. (1720), iv., 18. Belf.
Sen. Tatts, and Doctor! what’s that? Sham. The tools of sharpers,
false dice.
1709. Centlivre, Gamester, Act i. Now, sir, here is your true dice,
a man seldom gets anything by them; here is your false, sir; hey,
how they run! Now, sir, those we generally call doctors.
1750. Fielding, Tom Jones. Here, said he, taking some dice out of
his pockets, here are the little doctors which cure the distempers
of the purse.
1822. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, ch. xxxiii. A gamester, one who
deals with the devil’s bones and the doctors.
1823. Scott, Peveril, ch. xxviii. The dicers with their doctors in
their pockets, I presume.