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wharfingers

wharfingers is the plural of wharfinger.

Meaning of wharfinger

Noun

wharfinger (plural wharfingers)

  1. (historical) The manager or owner of a wharf (“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”).
    • Near-synonym: dockmaster
  2. (England, broadly) The manager of a wharf along a railway line, that is, a place used for loading and unloading goods on to trains.
    • A female wharfinger—a grade of staff peculiar to the Wenford Mineral Line—lives in an adjacent house.1940 December, Charles E. Lee, “The Wenford Mineral Line”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 645

Questions about wharfingers

What is wharfingers the plural of?
Wharfingers is the plural of wharfinger.

Words near wharfingers in the dictionary

  1. wharfholders
  2. wharfie
  3. wharfies
  4. wharfing
  5. wharfinger
  6. wharfingers
  7. wharfings
  8. wharfland
  9. wharflands
  10. wharfless
  11. wharflike

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