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Topic: WATER

Date: 1800-1900
Origin: longshore 'by the shore' (from along shore) + man

longshoreman

 noun
     
long‧shore‧man plural longshoremen [countable] American English
BOTTW someone whose job is to load and unload ships at a dock [= docker British English]
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