Definition of "wharfinger" [wharf•in•ger]

• One who owns or manages a wharf. (noun)

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• "By ten o'clock a nondescript youth arrived on foot, carrying a suit-case, which was turned over to me a few minutes later by the wharfinger."
• "Mr. Winkle is a wharfinger, Sir, at the canal, sir."
• "My father, then some time deceased, had been a wharfinger at"