of Longshoreman
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen Dr. Stern wanted to know whether I was an alcoholic, when Dwight Macdonald asked me seriously whether I drank longshoremen under the table - I can only confess that yes, I did "fling roses with the throng." Dorothy Day
For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all. Bourgeois life on the whole seemed to me pedantic. Käthe Kollwitz
After containerization, large crews of longshoremen were no longer necessary at port facilities, and the profession changed drastically. Source: Internet
In 1980 some 180 Soviet dockworkers, having brought with them forklifts and trucks, were reportedly working at Kampong Som as longshoremen or as instructors of unskilled Cambodian port workers. Source: Internet
Prior to highly mechanized container transfers, crews of 20–22 longshoremen would pack individual cargoes into the hold of a ship. Source: Internet