stevedore

Etymology
From (cognate with 🇨🇬, and compare 🇨🇬), from, , from ,  (compare 🇨🇬, ), the present active infinitive of , derived from , which is from the root. It is cognate with through 🇨🇬.

According to the , the word was attested in 1788 in the early form (see the quotations). It was included in the 1st edition of Webster’s Dictionary (1828) as stevedore.

Noun

 * 1) A dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo, or in supervising such work.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: докер
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 碼頭工人, 碼頭裝卸工人,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: stivisto, dokisto
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: stíbheadóir
 * Italian: stivatore
 * Japanese: 港湾労働者
 * Norwegian: havnearbeider,
 * Bokmål: sjauer
 * Nynorsk: sjauar
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , порто́вый гру́зчик
 * Spanish:, arrumador
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: estibador

Verb

 * 1)  To load or unload a ship's cargo.