wharfinger
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wharfinger
1545–55; wharfage + -er 1, with -n- as in passenger, messenger, etc.
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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 Harold Bindloss
They had reached the wharf office by this time, and were readily admitted by the wharfinger and given a place at the back end.
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 by James Elverson
The wharfinger saluted them, William Ammidon joined his wife, and beyond she could see James Saltonstone conversing with the Surveyor of the Port.
From Java Head by Joseph Hergesheimer
Mr. Thomas Clappeson, fifteen years in the West Indies as a wharfinger and pilot.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Thomas Clarkson
Mr. Blackwood was a wharfinger at Brooklyn and had married Miss Dankward, who brought him a dowry of modern ideas.
From Married by August Strindberg
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