wharfinger

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɔːfɪnd͡ʒə/|/-ʒə/    美 /ˈwɔɹfɪnd͡ʒəɹ/|/ˈhwɔɹ-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The manager or owner of a wharf (“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”). historical
    — Near-synonym: dockmaster
  2. The manager of a wharf along a railway line, that is, a place used for loading and unloading goods on to trains. England,broadly
    — A female wharfinger—a grade of staff peculiar to the Wenford Mineral Line—lives in an adjacent house.

词形变化

wharfingers plural

词源

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.
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