stevedore
a person who loads and unloads ships
TRANSLATION
stevedore = der Stauer, der Hafenarbeiter --- GOOGLE INDEX stevedore: approximately 900,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
There will not be any disruption at the harbour if the island's only STEVEDORE company closes, says the minister responsible for Jersey's ports.
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He said organised criminals had been targeting STEVEDORES or getting jobs on the wharf, working inside private companies and trying to access the integrated cargo system.
(The Australian)
(BBC News)
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He said organised criminals had been targeting STEVEDORES or getting jobs on the wharf, working inside private companies and trying to access the integrated cargo system.
(The Australian)
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stevedore
noun
- one who is employed in the loading and unloading of ships
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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The word stevedore originated in Portugal or Spain, and entered the English language through its use by sailors. It started as a phonetic spelling of estivador (Portuguese) or estibador (Spanish), meaning a man who packs things, here in the sense of a man who loads ships, which was the original meaning of stevedore.
The Portuguese and Spanish words likely stem from the Latin "stīpāre" meaning to stuff, as in to fill with stuffing. This sense of "stuffing" can also be seen in the German word for stevedore - Stauer - which literally means someone who stuffs or loads/packs things into a container.
In the United Kingdom, people who load and unload ships are usually called dockers, while in the United States and Canada the term longshoreman, derived from man-along-the-shore, is often used. Before extensive use of container ships and shore-based handling machinery in the U.S., longshoremen referred exclusively to the dockworkers, while stevedores, in a separate trade union, worked on the ships, operating ship's cranes and moving cargo.
Stevedore has also become a common characterization for a person who is over-muscular or foulmouthed.
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SYNONYMS
docker, dock worker, loader, longshoreman
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"I always enjoyed hearing my grandfather tell stories from his days as a stevedore."
noun
- one who is employed in the loading and unloading of ships
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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The word stevedore originated in Portugal or Spain, and entered the English language through its use by sailors. It started as a phonetic spelling of estivador (Portuguese) or estibador (Spanish), meaning a man who packs things, here in the sense of a man who loads ships, which was the original meaning of stevedore.
The Portuguese and Spanish words likely stem from the Latin "stīpāre" meaning to stuff, as in to fill with stuffing. This sense of "stuffing" can also be seen in the German word for stevedore - Stauer - which literally means someone who stuffs or loads/packs things into a container.
In the United Kingdom, people who load and unload ships are usually called dockers, while in the United States and Canada the term longshoreman, derived from man-along-the-shore, is often used. Before extensive use of container ships and shore-based handling machinery in the U.S., longshoremen referred exclusively to the dockworkers, while stevedores, in a separate trade union, worked on the ships, operating ship's cranes and moving cargo.
Stevedore has also become a common characterization for a person who is over-muscular or foulmouthed.
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SYNONYMS
docker, dock worker, loader, longshoreman
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I always enjoyed hearing my grandfather tell stories from his days as a stevedore."
