Wharfinger

Quick meaning: Wharfinger is a noun meaning (nautical, chiefly historical) The manager or owner of a wharf (“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”).

Meaning

(nautical, chiefly historical) The manager or owner of a wharf (“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”).

More Meanings

1. (by extension, England, rail transport) The manager of a wharf along a railway line, that is, a place used for loading and unloading goods on to trains.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: dockmaster

A female wharfinger—a grade of staff peculiar to the Wenford Mineral Line—lives in an adjacent house.

It was the wharfinger, seeking whom he might devour. Belacqua gave heed to what was being said to him, and elicited in the end from an exuberance of coprolalia that the main was requiring him to go. "Get off my pier," said the wharfinger rudely, "and let me get home to my tea."

My conclusions are, that, on the true understanding of the case of Fletcher v. Rylands, the Civil Judge's decree is right. That, if otherwise, the imposing of such a duty upon a landowner is forbidden by precisely the same principles as have forbidden the imposition upon Wharfingers, Railway Companies and Shipowners.

Word Forms

• wharfingers

Synonyms for wharfinger

Depending on context, synonyms include wharfmaster, dockmaster.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wharfman, wherryman, piermaster, quayman, holder, bargeman.

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