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WHARFINGER
WHARFINGER, the person who has the charge of a wharf, and takes account of all the articles landed thereon, or removed from it, into any vessel lying alongilde thereof; for which he receives a certain fee called wharfage, which becomes due to the proprietor for the use of his machines and furniture.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 319, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1496.html