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Stevedore   /stˈivədˌɔr/   Listen
Stevedore

noun
1.
A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.  Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper.






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"Stevedore" Quotes from Famous Books



... more, one of which he traded, the other, sold. He slept under the docks—paying no rent—fished, traded, and sold for a month, then paid for a second-hand suit of clothes and the services of a barber. His changed appearance induced a boss stevedore to hire him tallying cargo, which was more lucrative than fishing, and furnished, in time, a hat, pair of shoes, and an overcoat. He then rented a room and slept in a bed. Before long he found employment addressing envelopes for a mailing firm, at which his fine and rapid penmanship secured him steady ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson

... just half a minute. They took us both to the lock-up. I put up money for both of us to appear, as I wanted to get at him again; but he called on the police to accompany him to his place of business. He was a boss drayman, and a particular friend of a stevedore I had whipped a year previously, and he had it in ...
— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol



Words linked to "Stevedore" :   jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer



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