US dockers

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: ".