1. A female laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
   "The longshorewoman operated the crane to move heavy containers off the ship"

Type of: adult female, dock worker, docker [Brit], dockhand, dock-walloper, dockworker, loader, longshoreman [N. Amer], lumper, stevedore, wharfie [Austral, NZ, informal], woman