attrib. phr. (sb.) [Aphetic f. ALONGSHORE.]
1. Existing on or frequenting the shore; found or employed along the shore.
Often contemptuous as applied to men.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XI. 432, note. Some may not be acquainted with the functions of a Long-shore lawyer.
1837. Lett. fr. Madras (1843), 72. St. Thomé is not thought healthy the whole year through, because the ‘long-shore winds’… are more felt.
1837. Marryat, Dog-fiend, xiv. Sort of half-bred, long-shore chap.
1855. Kingsley, Westw. Ho! i. (1881), I. 11. Your rascally longshore vermin, who get five pounds out of this captain, and ten out of that, and let him sail without them after all.
1888. Argosy, April, 277. Within easy reach of the coast, where the ‘long shore’ herrings abound.
2. sb. A longshoreman. rare.
1857. Kingsley, Two Y. Ago, I. 82. Out of the way you loafing long-shores!
