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  1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, colloquial) A wharf worker: Synonym of dockworker.

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  • One night, soon after the battle of the Coral Sea, the US transport ship Shenandoah steamed up the Brisbane River to the wharves at Hamilton. She tied up just before eleven o′clock and at midnight a fresh shift of wharfies began unloading her cavernous holds.
  • But a group of wharfies rushed the ballot box, opened it, and ripped up some voting slips and threw others over a fence.
  • In Fremantle the wharfies were crucial to my preselection. Gordon Harris was the secretary of the Fremantle wharfies, and we got on amicably until he decided to stand against me in 1958.

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(Australia, New Zealand, informal, colloquial) A wharf worker: Synonym of dockworker.

Longshoremen on a New York dock load barrels onto a barge on the Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, c. 1912.

(Australia, New Zealand, informal, colloquial) A wharf worker: Synonym of dockworker.

Dockers load bagged cargo onto a barge in Port Sudan, 1960

(Australia, New Zealand, informal, colloquial) A wharf worker: Synonym of dockworker.

At anchor, two barges with cranes (floating derricks) at port