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

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

And all timber exported, to be paid for to Orphans 3l. per 1000 feet solid; returns of all embarked to be made to the wharfinger, under the penalty of 5l. for each neglect.

From The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) by Mann, David Dickinson

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

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

From A Dog of Flanders by Ouida