A person employed at a port to load and unload ships.
the wharf lumper might work for ten weeks on the wharf, and have 42 weeks' unpaid leave
Example sentencesExamples
- A shearer is usually a navvy or wharf lumper as well.
- It was six shillings per hour for wharf lumpers.
- The old man was a wharf-lumper once on a time.
- He has no more taste than a wharf-lumper for quality in a painting.
- He was a wharf lumper on the Sydney waterfront.
- His cousin was a young wharf lumper employed at Fremantle.
- The respondent was a wharf lumper and was injured while in the applicant's employment.
- This smart wharf-lumper fetches cascara-beans on board.
- The wharf-lumper receives more than the country school-teacher.
- A heavily built wharf-lumper was a witness in the case.