Wharfinger
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Profession:
- Wharfinger is the keeper or owner of a wharf. The Wharfinger takes custody of and is responsible for goods delivered to the wharf. The Wharfinger normally has an office on the wharf or dock and is responsible for day-to-day activities including slipways, keeping tide tables and dispute resolution. Its etymology is probably Elizabethan-era English. [1]
[edit] Trivium
- Richard Wharfinger is the name of a fictional Jacobean playwright--author of The Courier's Tragedy--in Thomas Pynchon's 1965 novel The Crying of Lot 49.
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