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Definition of Stevedores

1. stevedore [v] - See also: stevedore

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stevedores

Literary usage of Stevedores

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War by Emmett Jay Scott (1919)
"CHAPTER XXII THE NEGRO IN THE SERVICE OF SUPPLY A Vast Army of Colored stevedores in France—Their Important and Efficient Work—Essential to the Combatant ..."

2. American Law of Charter Parties and Ocean Bills of Lading by Wharton Poor (1920)
"stevedores. running, for instance, if the vessel has to take in ... stevedores. Ordinarily the stevedores are to be regarded as in the employ of the ship.1 ..."

3. American Law of Charter Parties and Ocean Bills of Lading by Wharton Poor (1920)
"stevedores. running, for instance, if the vessel has to take in ... stevedores. Ordinarily the stevedores are to be regarded as in the employ of the ship.1 ..."

4. Handbook of Admiralty Law by Robert Morton Hughes (1920)
"stevedores' Contracts—"Stevedore" Defined. 54. Maritime Character of Contracts, and Liens on Foreign and Domestic Vessels. 55. Privity of Contract Necessary ..."

5. Handbook of Admiralty Law by Robert Morton Hughes (1920)
"stevedores' CONTRACTS—"STEVEDORE" DEFINED 53. A stevedore is a workman or contractor who loads or discharges a ship and properly stows her cargo. ..."

6. Handbook of Admiralty Law by Robert Morton Hughes (1901)
"CHAPTER V. OF stevedores' CONTRACTS. ... stevedores' Contracts—"Stevedore" Defined. 64. Maritime Character of Contracts, and Liens on Foreign and Domestic ..."

7. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson, Edward Franklin White (1910)
"stevedores. To carry on business as stevedores in the city of and vicinity, and in connection therewith to buy and sell trucks, wheelbarrows, ..."

8. The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer: Containing the Best Prose and Poetic by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Leslie Pinckney Hill (1920)
"THE stevedores* WE are the army stevedores, lusty and virile and strong; ... We are the army stevedores, and we are volunteers; We did not wait for the ..."

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