tenderman

plural tendermen

1. nauticalA person who works on a tender.

   Fishers would not have realized any gains in 1964 if shoreworkers and tendermen had not voted to cancel their newly negotiated agreements in order to support the demands of the net fleet.

   1996, Alicja Muszynski, Cheap Wage Labour: Race and Gender in the Fisheries of British Columbia, →ISBN

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   How much do you think a tenderman should be paid per day? If a roe fisherman can make $20,000 on one day should the tenderman be paid at a rate per ton handled rather than so much per day?

   1979, Western Fisheries - Volume 98, page 7

   Despite the crisis, the adrenaline that must have been feeding his own alarm, Tim managed to maintain his control and spoke in a subdued tone, assuring the tenderman and all of us that things would be okay.

   2017, Dave Atcheson, Dead Reckoning, →ISBN