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Noun: wharfie  wor-fee
Usage: Austral, NZ, informal
  1. A labourer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
    "The wharfie efficiently moved cargo from the ship to the dock";
    - stevedore, loader, docker [Brit], dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper, longshoreman [N. Amer]

Derived forms: wharfies

Type of: jack, laborer [US], labourer [Brit, Cdn], manual laborer [US], manual labourer [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Wharfie