(chiefly historical) The owner or manager of a wharf.
Examples
Mr. Blackwood was a wharfinger at Brooklyn and had married Miss Dankward, who brought him a dowry of modern ideas.
We have a wharfinger, and the moorage fees and the accounting is done by a private firm, with an overview by our director of finance.
Cornwall, cottage 7 days, save pounds 300 An early 19th century former captain's cottage, Wharfinger, at Bude, Cornwall, sleeps ten.
We have a residence in the harbour now, which the municipality helped us get, and it's occupied 24-7 by our wharfinger.
She met my grandfather, Joseph Gunn, who was a wharfinger in North Shields, and they married, having one daughter and four sons, including my father Harold.
He turned to the wharfinger, who was pulling leisurely at his pipe.
