STEVEDORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stevedore mean? 

• STEVEDORE (noun)
  The noun STEVEDORE has 1 sense:

1. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

  Familiarity information: STEVEDORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEVEDORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dock-walloper; dock worker; docker; dockhand; dockworker; loader; longshoreman; lumper; stevedore

Hypernyms ("stevedore" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

 Context examples 

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.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Baldly as he had stated it, in his eyes was a rich vision of that hot, starry night at Salina Cruz, the white strip of beach, the lights of the sugar steamers in the harbor, the voices of the drunken sailors in the distance, the jostling stevedores, the flaming passion in the Mexican's face, the glint of the beast-eyes in the starlight, the sting of the steel in his neck, and the rush of blood, the crowd and the cries, the two bodies, his and the Mexican's, locked together, rolling over and over and tearing up the sand, and from away off somewhere the mellow tinkling of a guitar.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)