A worker or laborer responsible for placing and managing chocks on ships or in docks; a dock worker.
Compound of 'chock' + 'man,' following the English pattern of occupational nouns. This term was particularly common in British dockyard terminology.
Before forklifts and modern equipment, the chockman was essential to preventing cargo disasters—their skill in wedging and securing could mean the difference between a safe voyage and disaster at sea.
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