Meanings of wharfie in English

He was built like a greyhound with the shoulders of a stevedore.

For twenty years he had fought nothing bigger than a drunken stevedore.

I had it from the stevedore, who has been loading their cargo.

One third of the American stevedore force in Europe was Negro.

Well, if this ain't fortunate. The stevedore's services were required for Mammy Easter.

He got beaten every day, in fact, just like every other longshoreman.

This was followed by a moment of silence, then a longshoreman's bellow.

The pilot, the fisherman and the longshoreman were notorious offenders in this respect.

For every housewife and every longshoreman and every Hindu nationalist and every teacher.

Jane's language would have made Britney the longshoreman blush down to her boots.

He heard the dockworker gasp and felt him clutch at his arm.

Perhaps he'd been a dockworker in Miiska before the warehouse burned down.

The suspect was named Mateo Judd, a dockworker with an unspectacular criminal record.

A dockworker might reasonably show up to an impromptu meeting sweaty and disheveled.

He knew he had been the target, not that dockworker.

By the end of the week he was a transient lumper on a river steamboat.

The best work, when he could get it, was being a lumper down on the wharves.

Of course, it must be remembered that along with such frivolous occupations I was trying to get work as wop, lumper, and roustabout.

Let an Englishman exchange his bread and beer, and beef, and mutton, for no breakfast, for a lukewarm lumper at dinner, and no supper.

It depends on where you decide to make your divisions-whetheryou are a "lumper" or a "splitter," as they say in the biological world.

At Ferry Post he was changed into a wharf labourer.

He is a waterside labourer; last job at that was a fortnight since.

For the three years before her death she had been living in Fashion Street with a waterside labourer named Michael Kidney.

Sometimes he is a gold-digger, sometimes a dock laborer, sometimes a soldier, sometimes a sailor, but whatever he is he wears patent-leather boots.

News comes from Hamburg that the strike of the dock laborers is over.

Here were dock laborers, seamen and riverside loafers, lascars, Chinese, Arabs, negroes and dagoes.

The two men were rough looking fellows and reminded Dave of dock laborers or loiterers.

The porters who carry your baggage from the landing stage to the steamer do more work than three English dock laborers.

How would you know what a wharf rat looks like?

I told you, I wasn't wearing my spectacles and he looked just like a wharf rat runnin' through the kitchen.

He couldn't tell the world that Mr. Wharf Rat was a thief.

Sometimes these wharf rats are captured in the act, when fierce fights ensue.

The Hannah was a river boat and not a dive for wharf rats.

The Ports of Auckland has admitted it leaked personal leave details of a striking waterside worker to a blogger.

Emil stood by the harbor shed, with some waterside workers, looking on.

New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union Waterfront Lockout 51 loyalty card.

Foreign trade shrunk away to nothing; the stevedores and waterside workers might as well stop at home.

Eventually, the waterside workers voted to go back to work, but about 2000, including Andersen, were blacklisted from the waterfront forever.