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Wharfinger   Listen
noun
Wharfinger  n.  A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.






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"Wharfinger" Quotes from Famous Books



... the name of this amiable family—were comparatively recent sojourners in Dull Street. They had come there six years previously, on the death of Mr Shuckleford, a respectable wharfinger, who had saved up money enough to leave his wife a small annuity. Shortly before his death he had been promoted to the command of one of the Thames steamboats plying between Chelsea and London Bridge, in virtue of which office he had taken to himself—or rather his wife had ...
— Reginald Cruden - A Tale of City Life • Talbot Baines Reed



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