Thesaurus: wharf

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1. 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.
2. n. The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
3. 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.
4. v. t. To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.
5. n. a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
6. v. provide with a wharf
7. v. store on a wharf
8. v. discharge at a wharf
9. v. come into or dock at a wharf
10. v. moor at a wharf
11. 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. Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea. Bancroft. Out upon the wharfs they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame. Tennyson. Note: The plural of this word is generally written wharves in the United States, and wharfs in England; but many recent English writers use wharves. 2. Etym: [AS. hwearf.] The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea. [Obs.] "The fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf." Shak. Wharf boat, a kind of boat moored at the bank of a river, and used for a wharf, in places where the height of the water is so variable that a fixed wharf would be useless. [U. S.] Bartlett. -- Wharf rat. (Zoöl.) (a) The common brown rat. (b) A neglected boy who lives around the wharfs. [Slang] 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.
12. The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea. [Obs.] "The fatweed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf." Shak. Wharf boat, akind of boat moored at the bank of a river, and used for a wharf, inplaces where the height of the water is so variable that a fixedwharf would be useless. [U. S.] Bartlett.-- Wharf rat. (Zoöl.) (a) The common brown rat. (b) A neglected boywho lives around the wharfs. [Slang]