stevedore

/ˌstivəˈdɔər/

Other forms: stevedores

You can call a dock worker who loads cargo onto boats a stevedore.

You don't have to be named Steve to be one (the word means docker or longshoreman), but the spelling of the English given name probably influenced the modern appearance of this word, from the Spanish estivar, "to stow cargo." The ultimate root is the Latin word stipare, "pack down or press," and the archaic English verb steeve, or stow, is a relative.

Definitions of stevedore

1. noun

   a laborer who loads and unloads ships at a waterfront
   synonyms: dock worker, dock-walloper, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper

   type of:

   jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer

   someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor