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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Noun
  • As part of these reforms, the Royal Navy impounded dozens of merchant vessels for allegedly evading customs duties, enraging merchants as well as mariners, shipwrights, stevedores, and others in port cities whose livelihoods depended on foreign commerce.
    Time, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The jobs reflected in the survey include dockworkers, stevedores, truck drivers, financing and administrative positions.
    Tom Hudson, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Those losses range from geoscientists and petroleum engineers to blue-collar roustabouts and wellhead pumpers.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • West End performer Simon Bailey takes on the lead role of a modern-day showman, while newcomer Aaliya Mai makes her professional debut as Max, a shy young roustabout.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Miranda notes that the entire furniture ecosystem involves American citizens who could be hurt by tariffs — everyone from the longshoremen at the ports where imports arrive, to the truck drivers, warehouse workers and store employees.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • On Thursday, longshoremen worked in concert with sailors to haul tons of rice into a barge headed for Vietnam.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Alhonna is the genesis of the crime drama, where screenwriter Bill Dubuque worked as a dockhand in his youth at the comfortable, somewhat dated, lake retreat.
    Mike and Wendy Pramik, cleveland, 7 July 2022
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  • Harbor Inn Cafe — Cleveland, Ohio Harbor Inn Cafe is one of the oldest on Tasting Table's list, having opened in 1895 as a hub for sailors and dockworkers.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The Dutch Federation of Trade Unions (FNV) and the dockworkers’ employers, International Lashing Services and Matrans Marine Services, agreed to meet Sunday.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Rouster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rouster. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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