longshoreman

[ lawng-shawr-muhn, -shohr-, long- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural long·shore·men.

a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.

longshoreman

/ ˈlɒŋˌʃɔːmən /

a man employed in the loading or unloading of ships Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)docker

See -man.

First recorded in 1805–15; longshore + -man

From 1934 to 1942, he was a busboy, a dishwasher, a truck driver, and a longshoreman.

This girl was 'keeping company' with a longshoreman, who had as much as $25 in good weeks.

In their company, he traveled through Russia in every sense of the word, now as a longshoreman, now as a wood-chopper.

At the bar, a laughing longshoreman pushed a five-centavo coin into the nickeled red juke box, pressed the "Bsame" button.

You could see he was yearning, just dying, to taste of a middle-aged longshoreman by the name of Obed Nickerson.

The sailor and the train-hand, the longshoreman and the teamster, transport them to the industrial centres.

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