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Definition of Stevedore

Stevedore
Stevedore Ste"ve*dore`, n. [Sp. estivador a packer, a stower, fr. estivar to pack, to stow, L. stipare to press, compress, probably akin to E. stiff. See Stiff, Stive to stuff.] One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Meaning of Stevedore from wikipedia

- A dockworker (also called a longs****man, stevedore, or docker) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships. As a result of the intermodal...
- The stevedore knot is a stopper knot, often tied near the end of a rope. It is more bulky and less prone to jamming than the closely related figure-eight...
- Stevedore operations were established by the United States Army to provide movement of supplies through ports in support of the American Expeditionary...
- Patrick Stevedores Operations No 2 Pty Ltd v Maritime Union of Australia [1998] HCA 30 is an Australian labour law case in the High Court which culminated...
- theory, the stevedore knot is one of three prime knots with crossing number six, the others being the 62 knot and the 63 knot. The stevedore knot is listed...
- introducing many new characters to the cast, which include the working stevedores and their families as well as the criminal organization that controls...
- and general cargo. It was launched in 2006 as a subsidiary of Russian stevedoring holding DeloPorts. The terminal “Kombinat Stroikomplekt” (since April...
- Washington v. ****ociation of Stevedores, 435 U.S. 734 (1978) was a Supreme Court case in which the court held that the State of Washington's business and...
- Coast of Australia. By 1925 it was operating as both a shipping line and stevedore, gradually expanding interstate. The shipping operations were sold to...
- his mother and three older sisters, Mary, Joanna, and Margaret, as a stevedore on the Boston docks. In the 1880s, with money he had saved from his modest...