[f. prec. sb.] trans. a. To stow (cargo) in a ship’s hold. Cf. STEEVE v.2 b. To load or unload the cargo of (a ship).
1862. U.S. Congress, in De Vere, Americanisms (1872), 637. Sugar … not stevedored.
1877. Law Rep., 4 App. Cases, 678. A contract that the Defendant would not stevedore any ship which by the agreement is allotted to the Plaintiff.
Hence Stevedoring vbl. sb., the action of the verb; also the charge for handling cargo.
1879. Law Rep., 4 App. Cases, 675. The Stevedoring of all ships not consigned to any of such firms should be undertaken by the parties … in turn.
1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 11 Oct., 7/1. Four or five shillings, without any freight or tonnage, or pilotage or stevedoring,… is simply prohibitive.
