stevedore

How To Use stevedore In A Sentence

• They turned off Water Street, moving away from the rough haunts of the seamen and stevedores around Peck's Slip, toward the lights and traffic of Pearl Street.
• Its contents smelled of Scottish mildew and stone, and spindrift, and stevedore's spilt beer, and untreated crate wood, and alien scents of faraway cargo, the wafture of seas and continents.
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• But what I love the most: also included at the bottom of the list are the job titles "roustabout" and "stevedore," which I admit I had to Google. Boing Boing
• These amateur officers then gathered a labor force of sturdy Yankee farmers, seamen and stevedores from the Rhode Island seaport and drew others from the poorer classes of the City of Providence.
• The stevedore telephoned the police and then the local newspaper. COFFIN ON THE WATER
• Fung said that among those claiming priority over other creditors were fuel suppliers, the previous charterers, ship chandlers and stevedores.
• Some jobs are inherently dangerous, some very dangerous (for example firemen, stevedores and police officers) and employers cannot reasonably protect their servants from all foreseeable danger.
• The boys ducked past Mr. Thomas as he roared orders to the stevedores on the dock below.
• When workers' villages were close to the labour site, as for example with stevedores near the port of Suva, so the state tried to ensure that only a small percentage of workers were resident in the city.