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stevedored

Variant of stevedore

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noun

a person employed at loading and unloading ships; longshoreman

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

transitive verb, intransitive verb stevedored, stevedoring

to load or unload the cargo of (a ship)

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