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▪ I. stevedore, n.|ˈstiːvɪdɔə(r)|
Also 8 stowadore, 9 (Dicts.) stivadore.
[a. Sp. estivador, agent-n. f. estivar to stow a cargo: see steeve v.2, stive v.
A med.L. stivator in the same sense, together with the verb stivare, occurs a.d. 1263 in Mas Latrie Traités de Paix (1868) Docum., 39, 40.]
A workman employed either as overseer or labourer in loading and unloading the cargoes of merchant vessels.
1788Massachusetts Spy 10 July 2/3 Stowadores. 1828–32Webster, Stevedore, one whose occupation is to stow goods, packages, &c. in a ship's hold. New York. 1850Blackw. Mag. July 54/1 Up mounted four or five..stevedores [Cape Town]. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xvii. 181 We scrambled off over the ice together, much like a gang of stevedores going to work over a quayful of broken cargo. 1870Standard 17 Nov., The plaintiff was employed by Kennedy, a stevedore, in unloading the steam ship Sutherland. 1899F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 6 The litter of cases, bales, etc., about the deck was fast disappearing under the strenuous exertions of the stevedores.
fig.1867F. H. Ludlow Little Brother etc. 257 These stevedores of learning, the schoolmasters.
attrib.1898Daily News 16 Apr. 2/7 He was foreman of stevedore labourers. 1909Suppl. E. Essex Advertiser 21 Aug. 4/3 One of the largest stevedore contractors.
▪ II. stevedore, v.|ˈstiːvɪdɔə(r)|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. a. To stow (cargo) in a ship's hold. Cf. steeve v.2 b. To load or unload the cargo of (a ship).
1862U.S. Congress in De Vere Americanisms (1872) 637 Sugar..not stevedored. 1877Law Rep., 4 App. Cases 678 A contract that the Defendant would not stevedore any ship which by the agreement is allotted to the Plaintiff.
Hence ˈstevedoring vbl. n., the action of the verb; also the charge for handling cargo.
1879Law Rep., 4 App. Cases 675 The stevedoring of all ships not consigned to any of such firms should be under⁓taken by the parties..in turn. 1892Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Oct. 7/1 Four or five shillings, without any freight or tonnage, or pilotage or stevedoring,..is simply prohibitive. |