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A longshoreman is someone whose job is to load and ships at a dock — crates, containers, sacks — right at the water's edge. The word is mainly American. In Britain people say docker. It looks like long + shore + man, so students often hear “a man who stays a long time on the shore.” Though actually it was alongshoreman: a man who works along the shore. The extra a- dropped off. It is an older, gendered word; news and unions now often say longshore worker. The work is heavy, skilled, and tied to ports, not to walking on the beach.
碼頭工人（美式；英式多說 docker）
組成From alongshoreman: alongshore (“along the shore”) + -man. Not long + shore. The a- at the front fell away.
同家族的字
- alongshorethe older word this was cut down from: along the shore
- shorethe land at the edge of the sea
- longshorethe related adjective (longshore drift, longshore worker), also from along the shore
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
longshoremannoun
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A man employed to load and unload ships; any person thus employed.
- After that, Mr. Givens thought little more of his illness and returned to work as a longshoreman at the Port of New Orleans.
- With hours to go before their labor contract expired, longshoremen on the East and Gulf Coasts prepared on Monday to go on strike at midnight, halting most activity at some of the busiest U.S. ports.
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One who makes a living along the shore by oyster-fishing, etc.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。