stevedore
Sign in to saveAlso known as longshoreman, dockworker, docker, dock laborer, wharfie, wharf rat, lumper, waterside worker
thumb|250px|Longshoremen on a New York Harbor|New York dock load barrels onto a barge on the [[Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1912.]] thumb|250px|Dockers load bagged cargo onto a barge in Port Sudan, 1960
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- Stevedores on a New York Dock Loading Barrels of Corn Syrup onto a Barge on the Hudson River, ca. 1912 - NARA - 518287.tiff
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- Commons category
- Dock workers
- ISCO-08 occupation class
- 9333
- ISCO-88 occupation class
- 9333
- female form of label
- nosička v prístave
- male form of label
- nosič v prístave
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- Etymology
- History
- Loading and unloading ships
- Notable dockworkers
- In popular culture
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thumb|250px|Longshoremen on a New York Harbor|New York dock load barrels onto a barge on the [[Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1912.]] thumb|250px|Dockers load bagged cargo onto a barge in Port Sudan, 1960
A dockworker (also called a docker, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore, wharfie, or wharfman) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships.
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