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☆ ste·vedore (stē′və dôr′)

noun

a person employed at loading and unloading ships; longshoreman

Etymology: Sp estivador < estivar, to stow, ram tight: see steeve

transitive verb, intransitive verb stevedored -·dored′, stevedoring -·dor′·ing

to load or unload the cargo of (a ship)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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