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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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
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
Mr. Winkle is a wharfinger, sir, at the canal, sir.
From The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, by Matz, Bertram Waldrom
The next witness called was William Kenneth, city dock wharfinger in the employ of Captain Ramwell.
From The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Smith, Walker C.
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
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