Stevedore

Quick meaning: Stevedore is a noun meaning A dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo, or in supervising such work.

Meaning

A dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo, or in supervising such work.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To load or unload a ship's cargo.

Example Sentences

[I]n Barcelona, when he was stevedoring at the docks […]

During the year 334,242 tons of cargo were stevedored and 933,092 tons were handled and transferred.

The work of discharging and loading cargoes other than coal is undertaken by master stevedores, who are employed by the shipowner.

Stevedores differed from most other strategically placed port workers in that they were to some extent mobile. […] A master stevedore would contract to load vessels for shipping-lines whose vessels might be berthed at a number of docks, or even in the river. In following up the work of their employers stevedores might be required to work sometimes at the Victoria Dock, sometimes at the East India Dock, and so on.

Word Forms

• stevedores
• stevedoring
• stevedored

Synonyms for stevedore

Depending on context, synonyms include docker, dockworker, longshoreman, wharfie, lumper, dockhand.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include longshoreman, dockhand, docker, lumper, loader, stowadore.

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