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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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In furtherance to my idea, I applied to the late Mr Robson, Wharfinger, Newcastle, for leave to try an experiment with one of his leaden vessels, which was granted.
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.
Kevin Bateman, the wharfinger, had spotted us as we were approaching and already knows who we are, having been handed our reservations by the ship's purser a few minutes earlier.
I asked the wharfinger if he knew her, but he had never seen her before.
The dock warrant was issued by the wharfinger as certificate that he held the goods.

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