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longshoremen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Longshoreman \Long"shore`man\, n.; pl. Longshoremen. [Abbrev. fr. alongshoreman.] One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of longshoreman English)
Wikipedia
The Longshoremen were an American independent/alternative band from San Francisco, California, in the 1980s. Trouser Press describes them as a "cryptic poetry damage vocal trio." Their recordings are characterized by being mostly vocal "beat poetry chantings" that are uninhibited and whimsical. The three principal members were Judy Gittelsohn and Carol Detweiler (formerly of the San Francisco bands Inflatable Boy Clams and Pink Section) and "Dog" (real name David Swan). They were often supported by members of Club Foot Orchestra and other seminal Bay Area punk or "alternative" bands of the mid-1980s.
The band released two albums on the Subterranean record label, Grr Huh Yeah (1985) and Walk the Plank (1986).
According to a Trouser Press article, Voice Farm's Reilly and Brown co-produced and played on the second album by the Longshoremen, a cryptic San Francisco poetry-damage vocal trio. Where the amateurish and poorly recorded Grr Huh Yeah has too much distracting music for easy appeal, the Voice Farmers keep instrumental accompaniment tastefully understated on Walk the Plank, providing the group with a clear, solid platform for its theatrically chanted spoken-word weirdness.
The band's two records are still listed in the Subterranean catalog.
Usage examples of "longshoremen".
In winter when the rivers were frozen over and the raftsmen were laid off, he sat quietly at home in Troyl, where only raftsmen, longshoremen, and wharf hands lived, and supervised the upbringing of his daughter Agnes, who seemed to take after her father, for when she was not under the bed she was in the clothes cupboard, and when there were visitors, she was under the table with her rag dolls.
Everyone in the neighbourhood, even the unmarried young longshoremen, honoured the widow for her virtue, and even in their most drunken moments none of them would have ever considered brawling in her tavern, where they might break a precious mug or overturn an expensive table and thus add to the widow's hard lot in life.
There was a fair amount of custom in the smoky room: a table-full of sailors drinking by the door, a couple of longshoremen eating bread and bacon by the hearth and jesting with a grey-haired woman who already looked drawn and pale with exhaustion, here an hour before noon.
The longshoremen snickered and the sailors all leaned forward to get a better look.
Nevyn paid off the longshoremen, sent the children on their way with them, then knelt down on the dirty straw beside their prize.
Since Nevyn had no desire to call the wind on shore where all of Aberwyn could watch him, Elaeno badgered the harbour master into providing a crew of longshoremen and yelled at the gwerbret's fleet master till he allowed the Bardekian to press a couple of galleys into service as tugs.
But there were also Russians, Poles from the Free Port, longshoremen from Holm, and sailors from the German warships that happened to be in the harbor.
His back alone bore the marks of Finnish and Polish knives, of the snickersnees of the longshoremen from the Speicherinsel, and the sailor's knives of the cadets from the training ships.
The longshoremen were hanging around the streetcorners, betting who could spit farthest.
There were a few sailors and longshoremen, too, and, strangely, a few young boys dressed in nothing but soaking wet pants what had been cut off at the knees.
I talked to a few gangs of longshoremen as I worked my way down as far as the Cunard pier, but none of them’d heard of any trouble.
Even the longshoremen on the waterfront were keeping clear of the action, and the residents of the neighborhood stayed locked up very tight in their homes: we could hear bolts being thrown on doors as we passed by on our way to Greenwich Street.
The oarsmen came leaping aboard, sturdy men with great arms, while longshoremen rolled water barrels thundering out the dock and stowed them under the rowers’ benches.
He sat a while with those longshoremen, shipwrights, and weatherworkers, taking pleasure in their slow, sparse conversation, their grumbling Gontish speech.
The longshoremen, good-natured when they didn't have to unload plywood with the wind in their beam, listened: ".