Wharf
[wɔːf] or [wɔrf]
Definition
(verb.) moor at a wharf; 'The ship was wharfed'.
(verb.) discharge at a wharf; 'wharf the passengers'.
(verb.) store on a wharf; 'Wharf the merchandise'.
(verb.) provide with a wharf; 'Wharf the mouth of the river'.
Editor: Natasha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.
(n.) The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
(v. t.) To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.
(v. t.) To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Quay.
Typist: Murray
Definition
n. a bank of timber or stone on the shore of a harbour or river for lading and unlading vessels: (Shak.) the bank of a river:—pl. Wharfs Wharves.—v.t. to secure by a wharf: to place on a wharf.—ns. Wharf′age the dues paid for using a wharf: accommodation at a wharf; Wharf′ing material for making a wharf: wharfs; Wharfinger (hworf′in-jėr) one who has the care of or owns a wharf; Wharf′-rat the common brown rat: a fellow who loafs about a wharf in the hope of picking up a chance job.
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Examples
- One afternoon, late in the month of February, I came ashore at the wharf at dusk. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Well, sir, the cab went from Lombard Street to the Tower Wharf. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In 1853 the town had grown out into the bay beyond what was the end of this wharf when I first saw it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The hack drove to the wharf. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They had been seen on the Tower Wharf that morning, embarking on board the steamer bound for Rotterdam. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In the clatter of loose windows that made talk impossible they bumped over the disjointed cobblestones to the wharf. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The man took the bundle carefully, and was soon lost in the crowd that went up the wharf. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There were neither wharves nor houses on the melancholy waste of road near the great blank Prison. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The ore is loaded into small buggies at the mines and run down an inclined plane, where it is dumped into railroad cars for transportation to the shipping wharves, seventeen miles distant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of London Bridge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The wharves of Ostia were chiefly busy unloading corn from Sicily and Africa and loot from all the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The front room was plainly furnished as a sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon the back of one of the wharves. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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