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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



... sprang a leak which instantly let twenty-eight inches of water into her, and twice, subsequently, as much as forty inches have been sounded. Yet no repairs worthy of the name have been made. All that has been done is the pumping of her out daily by the stevedore's men when ...
— Saved by the Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne


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


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