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Stevedore

noun

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

... handle the mitts some, all right; none of your parlor Y. M. C. A. business, either, but give and take. He strips at one hundred and forty and can stand punishment like a stevedore. But, of course, there's no chance of ever gettin' him on the platform. He likes to go his four rounds before dinner, just to take the drab coloring off the world in general. That's the way he ...

— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

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... All the stevedore crew were members of the Wildcat's own race. Before noon he had affiliated with enough friends to make the matter of noontime lunch a simple business of accepting part of what was offered him, while Lily did the best she could on enough assorted ...

— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley

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... watch afore he spoke. Safe and sure! Wasn't I on the morning-watch myself, and beside him four hours of the night before, and turned in at eight bells? He'll tell you the same tale himself. Peter Burtenshaw—he's a stevedore now, at the new docks at Southampton." Much of this was quite unintelligible—ship's time is always a problem—but it was reassuring, and Rosalind felt grateful to the speaker, whether what he said ...

— Somehow Good • William de Morgan

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... contemplating and enjoying his agony for over an hour. "I was in this place not more than twelve hours ago," said one of them easily. "I come in to take a couple out for fighting. They were yelling 'murder' and 'police,' and breaking things; but they went quiet enough. The man is a stevedore, I guess, and him and his wife used to get drunk regular and carry on up here every night or so. They got thirty days on ...

— Gallegher and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis

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