Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is employed in the loading or unloading of ships.
- transitive & intransitive verb To load or unload the cargo of (a ship) or to engage in the process of loading or unloading such a vessel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose occupation is the stowage of goods, packages, etc., in a ship's hold; one who loads or unloads vessels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
dockworker involved in loading and unloadingcargo . - verb transitive To load or unload a ship's cargo.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Captain Perez was what he called "stevedore" -- that is, general caretaker during the owner's absence, at Mr. Delancy Barry's summer estate on the "cliff road."
Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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The port captain put a two-way radio up to his mouth and called the stevedore.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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The port captain put a two-way radio up to his mouth and called the stevedore.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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The port captain put a two-way radio up to his mouth and called the stevedore.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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The port captain put a two-way radio up to his mouth and called the stevedore.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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The stevedore was a much larger man, but George got the best of it.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol
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It must not be conceded that because of its rough character, the work of the stevedore is a calling that does not require intelligence, cool-headedness and skill; for without coolness and thorough knowledge on the part of those appointed to direct it,
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Business marketing sales a salubrious hela stevedore akan chlamydiaceae me tortuous in the megabucks lot and tremor me to the convincing row.
Rational Review 2009
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Nowadays, "stevedore" is essentially an archaicism; the men in the longshoremens union run those giant cranes and are paid very well.
Archive 2007-11-01 James Killus 2007
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Nowadays, "stevedore" is essentially an archaicism; the men in the longshoremens union run those giant cranes and are paid very well.
Detcord James Killus 2007
meeralee commented on the word stevedore
I'm always mistakenly thinking it refers to a large machine, like a tractor. Lovely word, though.
February 20, 2007
uselessness commented on the word stevedore
My dad's name is Steve. This word reminds me of his neverending lectures.
February 20, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word stevedore
That's awesome, uselessness.
I use this word rather frequently: "I curse like a stevedore." I have had to stop saying it because people stare at me, I suspect because they don't know what it means rather than the admission that I use bad words. It's akin to "curse like a sailor," "curse like a longshoreman." One person even got offended. Not that I swear, but that I said stevedore. Weird.
February 21, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word stevedore
funny how some people will get offended even not knowing a term. I remember when I was little my Dad got pissed at me and my sister for saying jinx.
February 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word stevedore
Funny, AZ! Well, maybe you said jinx juuuust so, making it sound all dirty-like. ;-)
Actually, I say "curse like a longshoreman" fairly often too, mostly because I like the word longshoreman and not because I curse a lot, or even know whether said longshoremen do. How often am I around them, after all? Or stevedores, for that matter.
February 21, 2007