stevedore

noun, a person employed in loading and unloading ships (COD)

“Those stevedores out of Montreal, they was a pretty clever bunch.”

“I remember one night we were loading shoes, and that night all the stevedores come up a new pair of shoes.”

“The fishermen were mostly the guys that were stevedores, and this is the Bay of Highlands down Newfie, and like whatever date we come in, say we come in Monday, they’d come in in the fish boats. They’d be there the next morning, and they’d never go home ’til we were unloaded.”