stevedore

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He first mistook me for a stevedore, then for the manager, and next for the Hong-Kong-Shanghai Bank.

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  1. noun One who is employed in the loading or unloading of ships.
  2. transitive and intransitive verb To load or unload the cargo of (a ship) or to engage in the process of loading or unloading such a vessel.

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  • I'm not exactly a stevedore -- I don't understand what it is that I'm doing to make my shirts so dirty.This picture makes it look better than it is, actually -- it's truly filthy, there's no way I can wear this shirt like this in public.
  • Besides being tougher than an East End stevedore, he was one of the best scholars and best athletes in the school. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
  • If your wife didn't have a bass voice, people might not confuse her with a stevedore or She's a soprano, you ninny Folks," put in Andy, "let's call a truce and watch this incredible illusion, huh It was such an impressive trick that I suspected Heather was contributing some real magic to it. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
  • They both wore heavy boots, the sort of things a steelworker or a stevedore might choose. —  Without Fail by Lee Child
  • I have eaten bouillabaisse at Marseilles, its cradle and its temple, in my youth, when I was easier to move, and it is mere belly-fodder, ballast for a stevedore, compared with its namesake at New Orleans! —  Too Many Cooks
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  1. Spanish estibador, from estibar, to stow, from Latin stīpāre, to pack.

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  1. from Spanish estivador, a wool-packer, hence a stower of wool for exportation, and genitive one who stows a cargo (cf. Spanish estiva = Italian stiva = Old French estive, stowage, ballast), from estivar = Portuguese estivar = Italian stivare, press close, stow (a cargo), from Latin stipare, press together: see stive.
 

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/ˈstivɛdoʊr/
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