The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wharfinger \Wharf"in*ger\, n. [For wharfager.] A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly historical English) The owner or manager of a wharf.
Wikipedia
Wharfinger (pronounced wor-fin-jer) is an archaic term for a person who is the keeper or owner of a wharf. The wharfinger takes custody of and is responsible for goods delivered to the wharf, typically has an office on the wharf or dock, and is responsible for day-to-day activities including slipways, keeping tide tables and resolving disputes.
The term is obsolescent; today a wharfinger is usually called a " harbourmaster".
Usage examples of "wharfinger".
They had all agreed, himself, the wharfingers, and the short-haul captains, that it was worth taking one more trip to the seining grounds before Storm set in.
But the costumes were gorgeous and the lighting imaginative, and though the words were all spoken in Transplanted Middle Western Stage British, Oedipa found herself after five minutes sucked utterly into the landscape of evil Richard Wharfinger had fashioned for his 17th-century audiences, so preapocalyptic, death-wishful, sensually fatigued, unprepared, a little poignantly, for that abyss of civil war that had been waiting, cold and deep, only a few years ahead of them.