stevedore• At twenty-three she married a man who worked as a stevedore on the docks, and together they had two more children.• She either fasted or ate like a stevedore.• His heartswelled at the very look of her; he was thrilled to see her eating like a stevedore.• A stevedore negligently dropped a woodenplank into the hold of the ship.• Both were as burly as stevedores, which likely was their preferredprofession.• The machinery was damaged by employees of the stevedore while it was being unloaded.