as in stevedore
one who loads and unloads ships at a port
a hard-muscled man who certainly looked like he had worked all his life as a rouster
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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
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West End performer Simon Bailey takes on the lead role of a modern-day showman, while newcomer Aaliya Mai makes her professional debut as Max, a shy young roustabout.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2024
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The musical’s book by Rick Elice, based not just on the 2011 movie but also on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, is set among the performers and roustabouts of a ramshackle circus at the depths of the Depression.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2024
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Dockworkers reach tentative agreement, suspending port strike 01:20 A 2019-2020 report by the Waterfront Commission, which oversees New York Harbor, found that a third of the longshoremen based there made $200,000 or more annually including overtime pay.—
Kate Gibson,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2025
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More than a decade before the Dali container ship toppled Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, a Seattle longshoreman named Roger Murray climbed aboard another vessel managed by the same Singaporean company.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
25 Sep. 2024
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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,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Sep. 2022
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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
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The 45,000 dockworkers’ ongoing threats to resume their strike over automation would shut down ports and could damage the economy as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.—
Mead Gruver,
The Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2025
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While others defended Trump’s attempt to protect dockworkers from technological change.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
13 Dec. 2024
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“Rouster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rouster. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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