Word Meanings - WHARFINGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.

WHARFING
A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties. Knight. (more info) 1. Wharfs, collectively.
WHARFINGER
A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.
WHARFAGE
1. The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage. 2. A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.
WHARF
The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea. "The fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf." Shak. Wharf boat, a kind of boat moored at the bank of a river, and used for a wharf, in places where the height of the water is so variable