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

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