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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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 Augustine Birrell
Mr. Winkle is a wharfinger, Sir, at the canal, sir.
From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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
He turned to the wharfinger, who was pulling leisurely at his pipe.
From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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 Rossiter Johnson
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