as in stevedore
one who loads and unloads ships at a port
a hard-muscled man who certainly looked like he had worked all his life as a rouster
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Noun
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His father, Ryozo, a sumo wrestler from Fukuoka Prefecture, became a stevedore and owner of a dry cleaning shop in Hawaii.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026 -
Calder’s handshake was that of a stevedore, which is to say the man had the grip of a sculptor who could work metal and wood with power and dexterity.—
Nicholas Fox Weber,
Air Mail,
18 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Acquiring sports teams and land For much of his life a partying roustabout who wooed beautiful women, the lean, mustachioed sportsman married three times.—
David Bauder,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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Acquiring sports teams and land For much of his life a partying roustabout who wooed beautiful women with a roguish charm, the lean, mustachioed sportsman married three times.—
David Bauder,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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The state of Maryland followed, as did a group of Baltimore longshoremen who filed a class action lawsuit arguing the companies should reimburse them for wages lost while the port was closed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 May 2026
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Holifield said listeners can also scan the QR code and hear stories from local historians such as Marvin Dunn, whose father was a longshoreman.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
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Two of the eight tainted Tylenol bottles came from Jewel stores in the northwest suburbs, though neither had passed through the Melrose Park warehouse where Arnold had long worked for Jewel as a dockhand.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Sep. 2022
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Alhonna is the genesis of the crime drama, where screenwriter Bill Dubuque worked as a dockhand in his youth at the comfortable, somewhat dated, lake retreat.—
Mike and Wendy Pramik,
cleveland,
7 July 2022
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Nicole TungA Burmese dockworker sorting different fish species after a catch from a Thai vessel was unloaded in Ranong, Thailand, in January 2025.—
Jay Ganglani,
NBC news,
3 May 2026
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But the tough comparisons did not stop the port’s dockworkers from handling the highest total number of TEUs in North America, both for March and the first quarter.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Rouster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rouster. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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