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longshoreman

noun

long·​shore·​man ˈlȯŋ-ˌshȯr-mən How to pronounce longshoreman (audio)
ˌlȯŋ-ˈ
: a person who loads and unloads ships at a seaport

Example Sentences

the longshoremen moved all of the fish into cold storage for shipment to the market
Recent Examples on the Web Police documents describe Forsell as a longshoreman and lifelong resident of West Seattle. Ruby Cramer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022 Jones served in the Marines from 1984 to 1988 and for the last 17 years has been a longshoreman at Port Milwaukee. Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2022 Jess' hands are rough and callused — more like a longshoreman's than that of a high school junior. Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2022 All of a sudden everyone talks like a longshoreman. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2022 His father, Aniello, was a longshoreman; his mother, Lucy (Esposito) Pignatano, was a seamstress. New York Times, 25 May 2022 That's fitting for the son of a Baltimore longshoreman. Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2022 By his twentieth birthday, having discovered that he wasn’t cut out for the back-breaking life of a longshoreman or stevedore, P.J. tried his hand as a brass finisher at an East Boston machine shop. Neal Thompson, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2022 His dad, also named Fred Hughes, was a longshoreman at the Port of Oakland and the family lived in Harbor Homes, public housing built by the federal government during World War II. Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

longshore, short for alongshore

First Known Use

1792, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of longshoreman was in 1792

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