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LOADER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("loader" is a kind of...):
attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)
Derivation:
load (provide (a device) with something necessary)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
Synonyms:
dock-walloper; dock worker; docker; dockhand; dockworker; loader; longshoreman; lumper; stevedore
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("loader" is a kind of...):
jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)
Derivation:
load (fill or place a load on)
load (put (something) on a structure or conveyance)