shoreman

The following is a shipping paper signed by a shoreman for Sweetman's and likely provides a rough equivalent in terms of wording:

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

It is this which puzzles the long - shoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

Main Street 2004

They reached the other shore, bumping squarely against the floating dock, and the shoreman lashed the upstream comer of the raft to the wharf.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

He was a long - shoreman, and a tough one, but I did him up in seventeen minutes.

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol

It is this which puzzles the long-shoreman about the clerk, the

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

For it ain't a pleasure vige, _that_ a shoreman could see; and you ain't come across the

The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906

When Elizabeth-Jane was about twelve years old the three returned to England, and settled at Falmouth, where Newson made a living for a few years as boatman and general handy shoreman.

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

When Elizabeth-Jane was about twelve years old the three returned to England, and settled at Falmouth, where Newson made a living for a few years as boatman and general handy shoreman.

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

The only possible objection to this cabin, in the mind of a shoreman, would have been its lack of height.

The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder Oliver Optic 1859

Central Office man in every lounging long-shoreman, and were not so far wrong either -- they halted at the street end of one of the smaller piers and from there watched a grimy little foreign boat that carried no wireless masts and that might have taken them to any one of half a dozen obscure banana ports of South America -- watched her while she hiccoughed out into midstream and straightened down the river for the open bay -- watched her out of sight and then fled again to their newest hiding place in the lower East Side in a cold sweat, with the feeling that every casual eye glance from every chance passer-by carried suspicion and recognition in its flash, that every briskening footstep on the pavement behind them meant pursuit.

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910