stevedore
5 synonyms for stevedore, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A worker at a dock who loads and unloads ships, or oversees this work.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
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Etymology
From Spanish estibador (cognate with Portuguese estivador, and compare Medieval Latin stivator), from estivar, estibar (“to load”), from Medieval Latin stivare, stīpāre (compare Italian stivare, stipare), the present active infinitive of stīpō (“to cram, fill, stuff”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *steypos, which i...
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