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Wharf [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A perpendicular bank or mound or timber or stone and earth, raised on the shore of a harbor, or extending some distance into the water, for the convenience of lading and unlading ships and other vessels. This name is also given to the wider part of a canal, where boats lie while loading and unloading. The two longest wharfs in New England are at Boston and at New Haven. The latter is much the longest, extending into the harbor about three quarter of a mile.

Wharf [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To guard or secure by a wharf or firm wall of timber or stone; as, the western bank of the Connecticut is wharfed at Hartford, to prevent the river from wearing away the land.

Wharf [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.

Wharf [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.

2. To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.

Wharfage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods, timber, wood, etc.

Wharfage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.

2. A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.

Wharfed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Wharfing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wharfs in general.

Wharfing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Wharfs, collectively.

2. A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.

Wharfing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Wharfinger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A man who has the care of a wharf, or the proprietor of a wharf.

Wharfinger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.

Wharfs [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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