Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who owns or manages a wharf.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who owns or who has charge of a wharf; one who makes a business of letting accommodation for vessels at his wharf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The owner or manager of a
wharf .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
CHAPTER I 2010
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Mr. Winkle is a wharfinger, Sir, at the canal, sir.
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My father, then some time deceased, had been a wharfinger at
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I asked the wharfinger if he knew her, but he had never seen her before.
The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy
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A slow, sonorous voice was proclaiming aloud that victory had been adjudged to Stephan Kiesslinger, born in the burg of Antwerp, son of a wharfinger in that town.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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I told him the tale of my adventures, gave him the name of the schooner to which I belonged, the wharf at which she was lying, and also of the wharfinger, one of his intimate acquaintances, who had directed me to his office.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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He received information from the wharfinger of the place of business and position of my relative; and on the following afternoon, after making myself look as respectable as possible, I proceeded, with
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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The boats to be kept tight; carry four oars, one mast and sail; boatmen to treat passengers civilly; to give notice half an hour before they depart, by bell ringing; not to stop more than ten minutes by the way, nor to go alongside a vessel, without acquainting the wharfinger; and the proprietors to keep entry-books, under the penalty of forfeiting the bond and recognizances entered into at the time their license was granted.
The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) David Dickinson Mann
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Mary was her name in our Lord, Lovel that of her father in the flesh, a respectable wharfinger of Bankside.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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Good Master Lovel the wharfinger neither knew his daughter nor his father's name in this long-drawn compound of liquids; he was troubled, very doubtful, anxious for Gregory Drax; but all Lombardy and the Emilian March came to know it in time.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
reesetee commented on the word wharfinger
The owner or manager of a wharf.
April 3, 2008
yarb commented on the word wharfinger
Wharfinger!
He's the man, the man with the boats tied up..
April 3, 2008
reesetee commented on the word wharfinger
Indeed!
April 3, 2008
yarb commented on the word wharfinger
The scene was brisk; the cranes creaked and swung incessantly with a rattle of chains; stevedores and wharfingers toiled and perspired; boatswains and dock-masters shouted orders...
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 9
August 29, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word wharfinger
"... the person who has the charge of a wharf, and takes account of all the articles landed thereon, or removed from it into any vessel lying alongside thereof; for which he receives a certain fee called wharfage, as a due to the proprietor for the rent of the quay or wharf, and for the use of his machines and furniture."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 627
October 12, 2008