wharf
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plural wharves [wawrvz, hwawrvz], /wɔrvz, ʰwɔrvz/, wharfs.
- : a structure built on the shore of or projecting into a harbor, stream, etc., so that vessels may be moored alongside to load or unload or to lie at rest; quay; pier.
- : Obsolete. a riverbank.the shore of the sea.
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- : to provide with a wharf or wharves.
- : to place or store on a wharf: The schedule allowed little time to wharf the cargo.
- : to accommodate at or bring to a wharf: The new structure will wharf several vessels.
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- : to tie up at a wharf; dock: The ship wharfed in the early morning.
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With more money, the port could have expanded channels, fortified wharves and improved road and rail links, he said.
Chiefs of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council join members of the Sipekne’katik First Nation on the wharf in Saulnierville, Nova Scotia, to bless the fleet before it launches a self-regulated fishery.
Then bed down in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut, with views of the wharf from your private room at the Steamboat Inn.
Sex is no less grotesque; during the act he hears “the wave-against-a-wharf smack of rubber on flesh.”
Afterward, stumble out into North Beach and walk it off on a stroll down to the Wharf.
And when I say East London, I mean Shoreditch—those of you expecting sterile Canary Wharf, think again.
When there was a big concert, the whole wharf and Main Street became transformed.
She had just left the wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville, with 225 passengers on board, of whom but 124 were saved.
Dick was at the wharf, one day last week, when one of the up river boats arrived.
Robert uttered a shrill, piercing whistle which might have been heard back at the wharf.
The lovers, who had laid their plans the night before, were already strolling toward the wharf.
In both cases the riparian owner, so-called, may erect a wharf extending from his land subject to public control.