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Noun: loader  low-du(r)
  1. A labourer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
    "The loader efficiently moved cargo from the ship to the dock";
    - stevedore, docker [Brit], dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper, longshoreman [N. Amer], wharfie [Austral, NZ, informal]
     
  2. An attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game
    "The loader quickly reloaded the shotgun for the next round of clay pigeon shooting"

Derived forms: loaders

Type of: attendant, attender, jack, laborer [US], labourer [Brit, Cdn], manual laborer [US], manual labourer [Brit, Cdn], tender

Encyclopedia: Loader, Brian