[f. prec. + MAN sb.] One who frequents, or is employed along, the shore; e.g., a man engaged in loading and unloading cargoes, or in fishing for oysters, etc., along the shore.
1870. Mrs. H. E. Spofford, A Pilot’s Wife, in Harper’s Mag., XLI. 864/2. He would sooner turn longshoreman and sweep a crossing.
1883. Chamb. Jrnl., 20 Jan., 33/2. His [the old-fashioned sailor’s] oaths were appalling to ’long-shore men.
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., III. xc. 234. The longshore men,… an important element in this great port, and a dangerous element wherever one finds them.
