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stevedore
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synonyms: lumper, longshoreman, warfie, docker ???
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Definition:a dockworker who loads/unloads cargo
image: by Claude Monet: Coal Dockers
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I know, also, that they were all three away from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has been loading their cargo.
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Then the gangplank chains, lowered the ferry's ramp, commenced their usual loud grinding; the stevedores were shouting to one another above the clamor.
John Irving. A Widow for One Year, p.200 (1998)
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He was a large, slow-moving young man who had been a stevedore before the war, and Christian suspected that he had once belonged to the Communist party.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.346 (1948)
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The hoi polloi of jarvies or stevedores or whatever they were after a cursory examination turned their eyes apparently dissatisfied,
James Joyce. Ulysses
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