请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 stevedore
释义

stevedoren.

/ˈstiːvɪdɔː/
Forms: Also 1700s stowadore, 1800s (Dicts.) stivadore.
Etymology: < Spanish estivador, agent-noun < estivar to stow a cargo: see steeve v.2, stive v.2A medieval Latin 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.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > associated shore-based personnel > [noun] > person who loads or unloads ships
lumper1785
stevedore1788
docker1887
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
1788 Massachusetts Spy 10 July 2/3 Stowadores.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stevedore, one whose occupation is to stow goods, packages, &c. in a ship's hold. New York.
1850 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 54/1 Up mounted four or five..stevedores [Cape Town].
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. 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.
1870 Standard 17 Nov. The plaintiff was employed by Kennedy, a stevedore, in unloading the steam ship Sutherland.
1899 F. 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.
figurative.1867 F. H. Ludlow Little Brother 257 These stevedores of learning, the schoolmasters.attributive.1898 Daily News 16 Apr. 2/7 He was foreman of stevedore labourers.1909 Suppl. E. Essex Advertiser 21 Aug. 4/3 One of the largest stevedore contractors.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

stevedorev.

/ˈstiːvɪdɔː/
Etymology: < stevedore n.
1. transitive. To stow (cargo) in a ship's hold. Cf. steeve v.2
ΚΠ
1862 U.S. Congress in De Vere Americanisms (1872) 637 Sugar..not stevedored.
2. transitive. To load or unload the cargo of (a ship).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > load or unload cargo
stevedore1879
1879 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 10 678 A contract that the Defendant would not stevedore any ship which by the agreement is allotted to the Plaintiff.

Derivatives

ˈstevedoring n. the action of the verb; also the charge for handling cargo.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > loading or unloading cargo
lumping1861
stevedoring1879
longshoring1926
downloading1962
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > carriage of goods, etc. > by ship > for loading or unloading
lighterage1483
stevedorage1860
stevedoring1879
1879 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 4 675 The stevedoring of all ships not consigned to any of such firms should be undertaken by the parties..in turn.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Oct. 7/1 Four or five shillings, without any freight or tonnage, or pilotage or stevedoring,..is simply prohibitive.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
<
n.1788v.1862
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/23 15:22:22