Crossword clues for longshoreman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1811, shortening of alongshore + man (n.).
Wiktionary
n. A man employed to load and unload ships.
WordNet
n. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore, loader, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dock-walloper, lumper]
Usage examples of "longshoreman".
John Smith was no longshoreman, she knew that well enough from her London street days.
He dressed like a longshoreman, but he had the manners and attitude of a gentleman.
Ethan lifted his head, uttering a curse worthy of the longshoreman he pretended to be.
If you could see him now, past seventy, with shoulders of a longshoreman and a barrel-chest sloping down to his burly equator, if you could hear him swear through a mustache Hindenburg would be proud to own, you would understand he could, had it been necessary, have put that colonel on his back, and laughed at the court-martial that would have been sure to follow.
A drunken long shoreman is supporting himself on a sober longshoreman, he has designs on a salt herring, skin, bones, and.
Fred scowled, looking more like a longshoreman than the interior designer he really was.
Wendell Carson had grown up poor in New Jersey, the son of a longshoreman with a drinking problem.
Reeves is a 66-year-old retired New York City longshoreman, who lives alone in a small house at the site of his trailer court.
Then, according to the former longshoreman, the spaceman started up some stairs, which led into the underside of the saucer.
That night a crusty longshoreman called Musso a queer man for sleeping around with cyborgs.
Nevertheless the longshoreman, thrashing and snatching among the gulls, managed to cram a couple of dozen small eels into the sack which Matzerath, who liked to be helpful, held ready for him.
But when the small and medium-sized eels were in the sack and the longshoreman, whose cap had fallen off in the course of his work, began to squeeze thicker, dark-colored eels out of the cadaver.
He bought two large and two medium-sized eels from the longshoreman for a song and tried to bargain even after he had paid up.
The longshoreman, who had put his cap on again, had begun to explain why the potato sack was full of rock salt.
The longshoreman, however, tied up the sack with the salted eels and tossed it nimbly over his shoulder.