Wharf definition
Wharf is defined as to provide with or bring to a wood or stone structure at a body of water.
An example of wharf is to build a dock on a bay.
An example of whart is to unload passengers at a dock.
verb
The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
noun
A pier where ships or boats are tied up and loaded or unloaded.
noun
(obsolete) A shore or riverbank.
noun
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To moor (a vessel) at a wharf.
verb
The definition of a wharf is a wood or stone structure built along the side of a water of body for ships to tie up against during loading.
An example of a wharf is a dock.
noun
To furnish, equip, or protect with wharves or a wharf.
verb
To berth at a wharf.
verb
A structure of wood or stone, sometimes roofed over, built at the shore of a harbor, river, etc. for ships to lie alongside, as during loading or unloading; pier; dock.
noun
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(obs.) A bank at the water's edge; shore.
noun
To take to or store (cargo) on a wharf.
verb
Origin of wharf
- Middle English from Old English hwearf
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf"); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn"), Old Saxon hwarf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn"), hwerban (“to turn"), Old Norse hvarf (“circle"), Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist").
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