What is another word for longshoreman?

Pronunciation: [lˈɒŋʃɔːmən] (IPA)

A longshoreman, also known as dockworker, stevedore, or wharfman, is a skilled laborer who works in a port, loading and unloading cargo from ships. Other synonyms for longshoreman include waterfront worker, dockhand, cargo handler, and quayman. A longshoreman's job is physically demanding and requires a good level of fitness, as well as the ability to operate heavy machinery and equipment. Their role is crucial in ensuring the safe and efficient movement of goods between vessels and warehouses. Each synonym for longshoreman carries the same importance as the word, highlighting the value and necessity of these skilled workers in the shipping industry.

What are the hypernyms for Longshoreman?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Longshoreman

In their company, he traveled through Russia in every sense of the word, now as a longshoreman, now as a wood-chopper.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
In his long tramps about the city, to vary the monotony, he would sometimes stop and chat with people-with a policeman, a fruit-vender, a longshoreman or a truckster.
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford
He is going "shore donkeyman" in future-what you call longshoreman.
"An Ocean Tramp"
William McFee

Famous quotes with Longshoreman

  • As a full-time longshoreman I am necessarily more a scribbler than a writer. But I am also so by inclination. The writing I can enjoy is the sketching of an idea in a few dozen words — two hundred at most. Elaboration and expansion are for me hard going. An article of several thousand words becomes inevitably a mosaic of ideas — a series of ideas stuck together.
    Eric Hoffer

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