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stowadore

stowadore is the obsolete form of stevedore.

Meaning of stevedore

Noun

stevedore (plural stevedores)

  1. A dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo, or in supervising such work.
    • Stowadores.1788 July 2, The Massachusetts Spy, Boston, Mass.: Zechariah Fowle, Isaiah Thomas, →OCLC, page 3

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Forms of stowadore

pluralstowadores

Questions about stowadore

What is stowadore the obsolete form of?
Stowadore is the obsolete form of stevedore.

Words near stowadore in the dictionary

  1. Stow cum Quy
  2. Stow Maries
  3. Stow-on-the-Wold
  4. stowable
  5. stowables
  6. stowadore
  7. stowadores
  8. stowage
  9. stowages
  10. stowaway
  11. stowaways

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stowadore (page history and authors); stevedore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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