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rouster

noun

ˈrau̇-stər

Definition of rouster

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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His father, Ryozo, a sumo wrestler from Fukuoka Prefecture, became a stevedore and owner of a dry cleaning shop in Hawaii.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Calder’s handshake was that of a stevedore, which is to say the man had the grip of a sculptor who could work metal and wood with power and dexterity.

— Nicholas Fox Weber, Air Mail, 18 Apr. 2026

Definition of stevedore

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Acquiring sports teams and land For much of his life a partying roustabout who wooed beautiful women, the lean, mustachioed sportsman married three times.

— David Bauder, Fortune, 6 May 2026
Acquiring sports teams and land For much of his life a partying roustabout who wooed beautiful women with a roguish charm, the lean, mustachioed sportsman married three times.

— David Bauder, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026

Definition of roustabout

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The longshoremen back at work are union members feeding their families from this port.

— Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2026
The state of Maryland followed, as did a group of Baltimore longshoremen who filed a class action lawsuit arguing the companies should reimburse them for wages lost while the port was closed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 May 2026

Definition of longshoreman

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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
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

Definition of dockhand

Noun

For 17 generations, Wietse Van Der Werf’s forebears toiled as dockworkers, shipbuilders, and sea captains in the Netherlands and its colonies.

— Richard Morgan, Time, 29 June 2026
Last September, three dockworkers were arrested after more than 1,000 pounds of cocaine were found hidden behind a false wall in a shipping container on the Sydney waterfront.

— CBS News, CBS News, 22 June 2026

Definition of dockworker

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