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🧑‍🏭 A dock worker 🌊 Near the shore 🚢 To unload ships
to longshore

to longshore

8.9
To load or unload goods from a ship
  • verb
  • /ˈlɔŋˌʃɔr/
  • US
: estibar
  • He spent the summer longshoring at the busy port to earn extra money.

Examples

  • The workers were hired to longshore the containers before the ship departed.

  • Many families in the town have members who longshore for a living.

  • The workers longshore cargo every day.

  • They are longshoring containers at the port right now.

  • The crew will longshore the supplies as soon as the ship docks.

  • During the peak season, many people come to longshore at the harbor.

  • Every morning, the team gathers to longshore the newly arrived cargo.

Surface Forms

longshore infinitive
longshored past
longshored past participle
longshoring present participle
longshores third person singular

Morphology

longshore = longshore (opaque) = long + shore

The verb is a conversion from the occupational noun, but that noun itself is a clipped lexical item, so the meaning is only loosely recoverable.

Etymology

The word longshore used as a verb comes from the job name longshoreman, built from long and shore meaning 'along the shore', so to longshore is to work on the docks handling cargo.