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noun
The manager or owner of a wharf (“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: nautical, transport
Synonyms: wharfmaster, dockmaster
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The manager of a wharf along a railway line, that is, a place used for loading and unloading goods on to trains.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: England, broadly
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Late Middle English wharfager (“keeper of a wharf”) (modified in the same way as messenger from Middle English messager, passenger from Middle English passager, etc.), from wharfage (“use of a wharf; payment for such use”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns, especially names of persons engaged in professions or trades). Wharfage is probably derived from Medieval Latin wharfāgium, or from Middle English wharf (“structure projecting into a body of water for ships to moor and load or unload, pier, quay, wharf”) + -age (suffix forming nouns denoting actions, states, etc.). By surface analysis, wharfage + -er.
Across languages
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