Usually means: Manager of wharf operations, facilities.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word wharfinger:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. wharfinger: Merriam-Webster
  2. wharfinger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wharfinger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wharfinger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wharfinger: Wordnik
  6. wharfinger: Wiktionary
  7. wharfinger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. wharfinger: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. wharfinger: Dictionary.com
  10. wharfinger: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Wharfinger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Wharfinger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. wharfinger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Wharfinger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. wharfinger: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. wharfinger: FreeDictionary.org
  17. wharfinger: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. wharfinger: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Wharfinger: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WHARFINGER, WHARFINGER, WHARFINGER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (wharfinger)

noun:  (nautical, chiefly historical) The manager or owner of a wharf (“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”).
noun:  (by extension, England, rail transport) The manager of a wharf along a railway line, that is, a place used for loading and unloading goods on to trains.

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