society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who load or unload
lader1542
ballast heaver?1780
stevedore1788
longshoreman1792
longshore1857
slinger1881
gangway man1915
?1780 (title) The ballast heaver.
1838 C. DickensOliver Twist III. xlviii. 239 Labourers of the lowest class, ballast-heavers, coal-whippers.
2007 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Apr. 55 A ballast heaver was a wharf workman who loaded ballast into ships, commonly stone.