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What is a wharfinger?

What is a wharfinger? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chiefly historical) The owner or manager of a wharf.
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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.
We have a residence in the harbour now, which the municipality helped us get, and it's occupied 24-7 by our wharfinger.
The dock warrant was issued by the wharfinger as certificate that he held the goods.
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.
There were cottages for the workmen and a fine house for the wharfinger, as well as inns and stables.

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