as in longshoreman
one who loads and unloads ships at a port a trade embargo that was especially hard on the nation's dockhands

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Recent Examples of dockhand Two of the eight tainted Tylenol bottles came from Jewel stores in the northwest suburbs, though neither had passed through the Melrose Park warehouse where Arnold had long worked for Jewel as a dockhand. Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022 Alhonna is the genesis of the crime drama, where screenwriter Bill Dubuque worked as a dockhand in his youth at the comfortable, somewhat dated, lake retreat. Mike and Wendy Pramik, cleveland, 7 July 2022 Just stepping onto the log from the dock, then maintaining balance as the log was pushed out into the water by dockhands with poles, looked like a challenge. David G. Molyneaux, miamiherald, 19 Aug. 2017
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Noun
  • With shift work and overtime, the pay of many longshoremen at some East Coast ports could rise to well over $200,000 a year.
    Peter Eavis, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Tens of thousands of longshoremen could walk off the job next week if their union and management can’t resolve long-running contract issues.
    Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Docks depended on a circulating pool of male maritime workers—crews of seamen and stokers who manned the tramp steamers, gangs of longshoremen, and stevedores who loaded and unloaded goods, as well as artisans and machinists who maintained and repaired the ships and trains.
    Michael Denning, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2015
  • America dodged a sledgehammer on Thursday night, when striking stevedores reached a tentative agreement to return to work.
    Dan Primack, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • It was packed with the lunch crowd, maybe a hundred dockworkers jostling over trays.
    EW.com, EW.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Trump weighed in last month on the automation issue after meeting with Daggett at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, siding with dockworkers.
    Aris Folley, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025

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“Dockhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dockhand. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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