wharfinger

American  

[hwawr-fin-jer, wawr-] / ˈʰwɔr fɪn dʒər, ˈwɔr- /

noun

1. a person who owns or has charge of a wharf.

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wharfinger British  

/ ˈwɔːfɪndʒə /

noun

1. an owner or manager of a wharf

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Etymology

Origin of wharfinger

1545–55; wharfage + -er ¹, with -n- as in passenger, messenger, etc.

Example Sentences

Close to the latter stand the new supreme court, the old age and accident state insurance offices, the chief custom house, and the concert hall, founded by Karl Laeisz, a former Hamburg wharfinger.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

Nothing further was said about the affair, though both of them devoted more than a little anxious thought to it, until one morning they were summoned before the head wharfinger.

From Delilah of the Snows by Bindloss, Harold

A slow, sonorous voice was proclaiming aloud that victory had been adjudged to Stephan Kiesslinger, born in the burgh of Antwerp, son of a wharfinger in that town.

From Stories of Childhood by Johnson, Rossiter

The youthful wharfinger could not find the Articles in the Gospels, and informed the Rev. J.G.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine

The wharfinger, as might be expected, was completely put off his guard by the ingenuity and cunning of the thief, and delivered them over to him.

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John