(a.) Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study evaluates the capabilities of preemployment roentgenographs for predicting acute back injury claims within the longshoring industry and for predicting back problems that lead to back disability of more than six months.
(2) Their longshoring experience was computed in terms of work-years according to categories of high, medium and low caloric output.
Longshoreman
Definition:
(n.) One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now he's returning to the stage with another flawed, difficult character: Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone, the tragic hero of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge , whose pride and unutterable obsession with his niece lead him towards the betrayal of his family and his community.
(2) Duncan became a longshoreman and able-bodied seaman.
(3) A View from the Bridge has its own challenges : originally written by Miller as a short story, its features as its protagonist Eddie Carbone, an Italian-American longshoreman from the Brooklyn slum of Red Hook ("a sinister waterfront world of gangster-ridden unions, assassinations, beatings, bodies thrown into the lovely bay at night", Miller wrote in his autobiography).
(4) Budd Schulberg, who has died aged 95, wrote the screenplay for the 1954 film On the Waterfront, and gave Marlon Brando , playing the longshoreman Terry Malloy, one of the classic lines in movie history: "I coulda been a contender.