wharfinger
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wharfinger
1545–55; wharfage + -er 1, with -n- as in passenger, messenger, etc.
Example Sentences
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My father, then some time deceased, had been a wharfinger at Liverpool, and it was quite possible that Mahmoud might have found himself at that port.
From George Walker at Suez by Trollope, Anthony
Mary was her name in our Lord, Lovel that of her father in the flesh, a respectable wharfinger of Bankside.
From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Mr. Winkle is a wharfinger, Sir, at the canal, sir.
From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles
Once, so the shaky old wharfinger will tell you, a naval lieutenant, who had been badly wounded in the first Maori war, died in the commandant's house.
From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Becke, Louis
With the assistance of the wharfinger an automobile was summoned, and in due course the members of the syndicate found themselves ensconced in a fashionable suite in San Francisco's most fashionable hotel.
From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon
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