stevedore
Sign in to saveAlso known as longshoreman, dockworker, docker, dock laborer, wharfie, wharf rat, lumper, waterside worker
thumb|250px|Longshoremen on a New York Harbor|New York dock load barrels onto a barge on the [[Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1912.]] thumb|250px|Dockers load bagged cargo onto a barge in Port Sudan, 1960
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Loading and unloading ships
- Notable dockworkers
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|250px|Longshoremen on a New York Harbor|New York dock load barrels onto a barge on the [[Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1912.]] thumb|250px|Dockers load bagged cargo onto a barge in Port Sudan, 1960
A dockworker (also called a docker, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore, wharfie, or wharfman) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stevedore” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.