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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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The stevedores of the ship (who were responsible for loading and unloading ships at the port) were also on a break.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Aug. 2026
Ron Goodacre, a stevedore, a longshoreman — strong, proud, always with a story.

— Lee Clayton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 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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Sam Rockwell, Marin Ireland, and Alfred Molina lead a buzzy revival of the Arthur Miller play — about a Red Hook longshoreman whose protectiveness toward his teenage niece metastasizes into violent obsession — at, of all places, La MaMa.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026
This includes collaboration with Waterson Terminal Services to leverage local longshoremen’s expertise in offshore wind cable management.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 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

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Davis looked to the 1920s for the collection, drawing on artist Charles Demuth’s depictions of sailors, dockworkers and flappers gathering in speakeasies.

— Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
For all its sailors’ dives and dockworker canteens, Hamburg is also a place of vast wealth, and of the material beauty that its shipping has built.

— Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2026

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