Longshoreman

Word LONGSHOREMAN
Character 12
Hyphenation long shore man
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Longshoreman"

What do we mean by longshoreman?

A dock worker who loads and unloads ships. noun

A workman, as a stevedore or jobber, who is employed in loading and discharging the cargoes of vessels. noun

One who makes a living along shores by fishing for clams, oysters, etc. noun

One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels. noun

A man employed to load and unload ships. noun

A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port noun

A man employed to load and unload ships.

One who makes a living along the shore by oyster-fishing, etc.

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The word "longshoreman" in example sentences

Here I paraphrase longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer, from whom I lifted the title for this article. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We do know he is supposedly an unemployed longshoreman, which is odd, because he has enough money to spend many of his evenings drinking rum at various rebel taverns in North Boston. ❋ Laura Lee Guhrke (2000)

The longshoreman was a saucy yin to the Market Street's cheesy yang. [email protected] (SUE KIDD; Staff Write (2010)

(link) Lots of CGI to make Tom Cruise look more like a longshoreman, which is to say, a lot more like a fireplug. ❋ Ccfinlay (2005)

With Prince Albert of Monaco he held himself equal, and for every bird shot on the wing by the head of the house of Grimaldi the "longshoreman" of Havre brought down another. ❋ Blanche McManus (N/A)

He was aided by Huxley, who lent him a microscope, and ultimately this common 'longshoreman's researches were of real value to the scientific world. ❋ Unknown (1906)

My dad worked as a longshoreman and my mother was a stay-at-home mom. ❋ Andrea Buchanan (2011)

While becoming established as a longshoreman, or “dockwalloper,” as they have been dubbed on the Great Lakes, Danny busied himself reading in his spare time. ❋ Rick Porrello (2011)

Later he became a locomotive fireman, longshoreman, police officer, standup comedian, postmaster, and bus and truck driver. ❋ Robert Barr (2011)

And his father (Stephen Lang) is a longshoreman who drinks up his earnings and then takes it out on his wife (Karen Allen) and older son with beatings. ❋ Marshall Fine (2011)

“So it was you, was it, you black beggar?” belligerently demanded one Kelly, an Irish-American and a longshoreman, making his first trip to sea, and boat-puller for Kerfoot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His mother seems to think so, screaming it at him when he tries to go fishing with his boss in his days as a longshoreman. ❋ Darkerblogistan (2009)

A longshoreman with his tattoos side-by-side with a nurse still in her hospital scrubs. ❋ María Elena Durazo (2011)

Before March, 1961, I was a longshoreman working in the holds of ships when I was asked to take over this union and make something of it. ❋ Rick Porrello (2011)

Jake Stangel for The Wall Street Journal A longshoreman contractor oversees the process of loading logs for export at the Weyerhaeuser facility. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I remember Artie talking about working as a longshoreman on the Stern show and here he tells the tale of how he left that cushy union job to risk it all in the world of standup. ❋ Darkerblogistan (2009)

Within a matter of months, police had shot and killed two minorities, an Irish longshoreman and a German man. ❋ Sean Gardiner (2011)

In the case of the longshoreman, a fellow officer who witnessed the shooting said, Why did you do that? ❋ Sean Gardiner (2011)

It was about this time that Danny received a phone call from Marty McCann, an F.B.I. agent investigating a longshoreman who had left a gun in his Detroit hotel room after attending an I.L.A. convention. ❋ Rick Porrello (2011)

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