/hwɔːvz/. Forms: Old English hwearf, wearf, hwerf, Old English, Middle English warf, Middle English wherf(e, warffe, wharghffe, quarf, Middle English qwerf, Middle English–1600s warff, wharff(e, Middle English–1700s wharfe, 1500s quarfe, ( wharthe), 1600s hwarf, 1600s– wharf.wharfn.1
/wɔːf/, U.S. /(h)wɔrf//hwɔːvz/. Forms: Old English hwearf, wearf, hwerf, Old English, Middle English warf, Middle English wherf(e, warffe, wharghffe, quarf, Middle English qwerf, Middle English–1600s warff, wharff(e, Middle English–1700s wharfe, 1500s quarfe, ( wharthe), 1600s hwarf, 1600s– wharf. 1. A substantial structure of timber, stone, etc., built along the water's edge, so that ships may lie alongside for loading and unloading.Often with prefixed noun, as fish-wharf, gun-wharf.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay
wharf10..
staithe1338
quay1399
lading1594
staithe1613
bankshall1681
riverfront1751
dock1817
riva1819
embarcadero1850
landing-quay1861
society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [noun] > embanking > an embankment
wharf10..
mounding1691
banking1776
sunka1784
embankment1786
battery1799
fill1850
earth fill1877
10.. Charter of Eadweard in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 221 Ic wille ðat sainte Petre and ða gebroðera in Westminstre habben ðat land and ðone wearf..ðe Ulf and his wif..gafon.
1067 in Charter Roll 9 Edw. III m. 18 De uno hwearfo quod est ad applicationem navium ad capud pontis illius civitatis [sc. London].
1080–5 in H. W. C. Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Norm. (1913) 126 Unum warf quod est ad caput pontis Londonie.
1320 Rolls of Parl. I. 370/2 In shopis suis super Warfam predictam.
c1320 in W. H. Hale Domesday St. Paul's (1858) 158* An qwarvæ sive kayæ, muri sive wallæ..debite reparentur.
1397 Rolls of Parl. III. 371/1 De la novell Keye autrement appelle le Wherf [1432 Act 10 Hen. VI, c. 5 §2 Qwerf] a le cost du dit Port de Caleys.
1442 Rolls of Parl. V. 54/2 Diverse Wharves and Keyes beyng by the water sides.
1485 Patent Roll, 1 Henry VII 30 Sept. (P.R.O.: C 66/561) m. 9(28) Custodiam de hawes & wharfes villarum nostrarum Walton and Waybrigge.
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 37 §5 Too Cotages or Meses wyth Howses & Wharfes..in Stepeney.
1669 S. Sturmy Summary of Penalties & Forfeitures in Mariners Mag. 8 If any Custom-house Officer..keep any Wharfe, or hold any Hostelry, or Tavern.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 128 A rivage or Wharfe all of hewn stone which makes the river appeare very neate.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 241 Its [sc. Blackfriars bridge] length, from wharf to wharf, is about nine hundred and ninety-five feet.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 292 The bell at London-bridge wharf rang, and a Margate boat was just starting.
1878 G. S. Nares Narr. Voy. Polar Sea I. i. 1 H.M. ships ‘Alert’ and ‘Discovery’ cast off from the dockyard wharf, Portsmouth.
1882 J. Rhŷs Celtic Brit. ii. 46 The wharfs for the tin-barges were erected.
a. An embankment, mole, or dam. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun]
wharf1038
causeyc1330
wall1330
bulwark1555
scut1561
weir1599
mound1613
staithe1613
breastwork1641
embankment1786
bund1813
sheath1850
fleet-dyke1858
sheathing1867
causeway1878
flood-bank1928
stopbank1950
1038 Charter of Harold in Thorpe Charters 341 Þa gyrnde he þæt he moste macian foran gen Mildryþe æker ænne hwerf wið þon wodan to werianne.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xv. f. 196v Untill that hee the bowwing wharf besyde the hauen tooke [L. Tendit ad incurvo munitos aggere portus].
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xl. li. 1091 Lepidus..raised the great causey or wharfe at Tarracina.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xxviii. 140 The Apamians..set open the sluces, and breake up the wharfes and bankes that keepe these two rivers asunder.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > quality of being raised or elevated > raised level surface or platform
plancher1295
staging1323
cagea1400
scaffoldc1405
mounture?a1425
halpace1507
wharf1533
platform1557
plat1559
foot pace1571
theatre1587
scenec1612
estrade1696
suggestum1705
tribune1763
scaffolding1787
estrado1838
dais1861
deck1872
1533 in W. H. St. J. Hope Windsor Castle (1913) I. 249 The makyng off a new wharff upon the north syde of the said Castell.
1535 in W. H. St. J. Hope Windsor Castle (1913) I. 262 The buttresses made on the bakesyde of the new Wharffe.
c. †The bank of a river (obsolete); also, a gravel or sandbank.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > of river
sidec1275
rive1296
bankc1303
brae1330
riversidea1425
brook-sidec1450
ripec1475
pleyc1503
riverbanka1522
burn-sidec1540
greave1579
wharf1603
watera1800
riva1819
brook-bank1861
riverine1864
hag1886
the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > sandbank > [noun]
sand-ridgec1000
hurst1398
shelp1430
sand1495
ayre1539
bar1587
knock1587
sandbank1589
middle ground1653
middle1702
overslaugh1755
sandbar1767
sea-bank1828
tow-head1829
wharf1867
whale1905
horse1926
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 33 The fat weede which rootes it selfe in ease On Lethe wharffe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 220 From the Barge A strange inuisible perfume hits the sense Of the adiacent Wharfes . View more context for this quotation
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Wharf, in hydrography, is a scar, a rocky or gravelly concretion, or frequently a sandbank,..where the tides throw up dangerous ripples and overfalls.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > raft > types of raft
tablea1393
drag?a1400
wharfa1680
kelek1684
catamaran1697
pipery1698
wood-flat1785
moki1835
mokihi1844
wanigan1848
pae-pae1958
a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) ii. 119 They were brought upon warffs or raffts of many pines and firs.
e. A place raised or otherwise marked out on which stuff is deposited for subsequent removal to another place.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > temporary
wharf1725
entrepôt1765
1725 in Dig. Proc. Court-leet Savoy (1789) 22 For making a dung wharfe or lay stall at the lower end of Fountain Court.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
wharf-end n.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > parts of
quayside1415
wharf-head1801
wharf-side1842
wharf-wall1845
wharf-end1897
wharf-frontage1897
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous iv, in McClure's Mag. Jan. 227/1 Her rigging flew knotted and tangled like weed at a wharf-end.
wharf-frontage n.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > parts of
quayside1415
wharf-head1801
wharf-side1842
wharf-wall1845
wharf-end1897
wharf-frontage1897
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous x, in McClure's Mag. Apr. 527/2 Statistics of boats, gear, wharf-frontage, capital invested,..and profits.
wharf-head n.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > parts of
quayside1415
wharf-head1801
wharf-side1842
wharf-wall1845
wharf-end1897
wharf-frontage1897
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Chron. 35/1 All goods whatsoever, that are not disembarked at the Wharf Head.
wharf-holder n.
ΚΠ
1883 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 11 486 Whether the persons for whom the weighing was done were wharfholders or not.
wharf-house n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house in specific situation
townhouse1571
garden house1598
corner-house1693
wharf-house1698
notch house1825
suburban1856
twilight home1934
twilight house1971
townhome1976
1698 in Hertford Sess. Rolls (1905) I. 428 [Encroaching upon the river Lea] by building a wharfe house..thereon.
wharf-labourer n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > at docks
gangsman1740
wharf-man1848
roustabout1860
matey1865
watersider1867
rouster1870
docker1887
wharf-labourer1890
wharf-lumper1906
wharfie1912
docksman1921
1890 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 11 July 2 A wharf-labourer who stands charged with the theft of an oil skin coat... The accused was at work discharging coal on the Mawhera.
a1948 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs (1951) xi. 321 Trouble with wharf labourers..kept them six weeks in Auckland.
wharf-land n.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [noun] > near wharf
wharf-land1895
1895 Daily Tel. 5 Aug. 5/3 Converting a piece of wharfland on the Isle of Dogs into a public pleasure-ground.
wharf-man n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > at docks
gangsman1740
wharf-man1848
roustabout1860
matey1865
watersider1867
rouster1870
docker1887
wharf-labourer1890
wharf-lumper1906
wharfie1912
docksman1921
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. i. ii. §6 Bargemen, sailors, wharfmen.
wharf-master n.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > harbour-master > [noun] > master of pier or wharf
wharfinger1552
quaymaster1578
pierreeve1586
wharf-mastera1618
a1618 W. Raleigh in Remains (1661) 179 From any Port Town..the Bridge-master or the Wharfmaster..will deliver a true Note of the number of Lasts of Herrings brought to their Wharfes.
1836 J. M. Peck New Guide for Emigrants to West xii. 320 The following, from the register of a wharf master, will exhibit the commerce for 1835.
1968 M. M. Sibley Port of Houston iii. 59 Wharfmaster Daniel G. Wheeler reported that in that year [sc. 1844] 6.892 bales passed over the Houston wharves.
wharf-measure n.
ΚΠ
1821 Acct. Peculations Coal Trade 13 All coals sent out, wharf measure.
wharf-property n.
ΚΠ
1877 W. H. Burroughs On Taxation 140 The whole wharf property..was liable to be taxed.
wharf-shed n.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > specific equipment on
trainway1867
wharf crane1893
wharf-shed1952
1952 R. Finlayson Schooner came to Atia xi. 61 In the..market place by the wharfshed.
wharf-side n.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > parts of
quayside1415
wharf-head1801
wharf-side1842
wharf-wall1845
wharf-end1897
wharf-frontage1897
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. iii. 71 A crowd of high-pressure steamboats, clustered together by the wharf-side.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. x. 243 A hanged heavy look, suggestive of a wharfside crane.
wharf-stead n.
ΚΠ
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Wharf-steead, a ford in a river. In Ray, it is warstead, q.d. waterstead.
wharf-wall n.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > parts of
quayside1415
wharf-head1801
wharf-side1842
wharf-wall1845
wharf-end1897
wharf-frontage1897
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 604/1 A wharf wall..at the East end of His Majesty's dock-yard, Woolwich.
C2. † wharf-gelt n. Obsolete ? an impost levied on shipping for the use of a wharf.
wharf-boat n. (a) U.S. a boat supporting a platform and moored at a bank, used as a wharf; (b) a boat employed about a wharf.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > boat used at a wharf
wharf-boat1849
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > types of
wood-wharf1279
jutty-head1559
coal wharf1655
coal staithe1708
jetty head1731
sufferance wharf1774
trunk-staithe1789
wharf-boat1849
sufferance quay1882
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > used as support, wharf, or gate
pont1631
pontoon1676
tin-boat1677
wharf-boat1849
caisson1854
caisson-gate1866
1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 227 In the wharf-boat..I expected to find a bed for the first night.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) (at cited word) On the Western rivers the height of the water is so variable that a fixed wharf would be useless. In its place is used a rectangular float... It is generally aground on the shore side, and is entered by a plank or movable platform. This is a wharf-boat.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 225 She was used as a ‘wharf-boat’ or store-ship.
wharf crane n. a crane fixed in position on a wharf (see quot. 1968); a wharf-side crane.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > crane > types of
quay crane1821
balance-crane1824
well crane1836
water crane1849
jenny1861
jib-crane1873
stacker1875
Titan1876
transfer-elevatora1884
whip-crane1883
Goliath1888
jigger1891
wharf crane1893
floating crane1903
tower crane1906
hammer-headed crane1908
portal crane1908
hammer-head crane1910
luffing crane1913
cherry-picker1945
stacker crane1959
monotower1963
Transtainer1964
portainer1966
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > specific equipment on
trainway1867
wharf crane1893
wharf-shed1952
1893 K. P. Dahlstrom tr. Weisbach & Herrmann Mech. Hoisting Machinery vi. 243 The ordinary wharf crane with capacity to lift 100 to 200 cwt.
1903 J. Horner Elem. Treat. Hoisting Machinery xvii. 195 There is a class of fixed jib cranes which have no other name than that which designates the nature of their service, fixed wharf cranes... But by the term wharf crane, a broad type only is understood.
1968 Gloss. Terms Materials Handling (B.S.I.) iv. 14 Dockside or wharf crane, a jib crane designed for loading and unloading ships, consisting of a full or semi-portal, fixed or rail mounted, supporting a revolving superstructure and jib.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > shipping dues > [noun]
lastinglOE
lastage1205
anchorage1405
strandage1419
plankage1424
quayage1440
lowage1457
measurage1460
perch money1466
perching1483
keel-toll?1499
wharf-gelt1505
sand-gelt1527
wharfage1535
soundage1562
towage1562
groundage1567
bankage1587
rowage1589
shore-silver1589
pilotage1591
dayage1592
ballastage1594
rivage1598
pieragec1599
shore-mail1603
lightage1606
shorage1611
port charge1638
light money1663
port due1663
water-bailage1669
mensuragea1676
mooragea1676
keelage1679
shore-due1692
harbour-due1718
lockage1722
magazinage1736
jettage?1737
light duty1752
tide-duty1769
port duty1776
dockage1788
light due1793
canalage1812
posting-dues1838
warpage1863
winch1864
postage1868
flag-dues1892
berthage1893
shore-levy-
1505 Patent Roll, 20 Henry VII 15 Jan. (P.R.O.: C 66/595) m.12v Without payeng of any̤̤̤..sandegelt wharfgelt..or any other toll.
wharf-lumper n. [lumper n. 1a] Australian a wharf-labourer.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > at docks
gangsman1740
wharf-man1848
roustabout1860
matey1865
watersider1867
rouster1870
docker1887
wharf-labourer1890
wharf-lumper1906
wharfie1912
docksman1921
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands iii. 39 Three weeks..later, Sarah was married to a wharf-lumper..and Fuzzy's dream of love was over.
1951 V. Palmer in Landfall V. 292 In Victoria..it was read by nearly everybody, from wharflumpers to politicians.
wharf-rat n. (a) the common brown rat, Mus decumanus, which infests wharfs; (b) a man or boy who loafs about wharfs, often with the intention of stealing (slang).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun]
thief688
bribera1387
stealer1508
taker?a1513
goodfellow1566
snatcher1575
lift1591
liftera1592
larcin1596
Tartar1602
lime-twig1606
outparter1607
Tartarian1608
flick1610
puggard1611
gilt1620
nim1630
highwayman1652
cloyer1659
out-trader1660
Robin Goodfellow1680
birdlime1705
gyp1728
filch1775
kiddy1780
snaveller1781
larcenist1803
pincher1814
geach1821
wharf-rat1823
toucher1837
larcener1839
snammer1839
drummer1856
gun1857
forker1867
gunsmith1869
nabber1880
thiever1899
tea-leaf1903
gun moll1908
nicker1909
knocker-off1926
possum1945
scuffler1961
rip-off1969
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > in specific place
market beaterc1405
market dasher1440
market runner?c1475
benchera1533
bench-whistler1542
bench-babbler1549
Paul's man1616
Paul's-walker1658
benchwarmer1662
round-towner1775
wharf-rat1823
boulevardier1879
sidewalk superintendent1879
bar-loafer1889
stoepsitter1934
beach bum1962
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Rattus (rat) > rattus norvegicus (brown rat)
Norway rat1753
wharf-rat1823
sewer-rat1851
trench rat1916
1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot ii. i. 13 To burrow like a rabbit, or jump from hole to hole, like a wharf-rat.
1836 Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, Pa.) 4 Oct. 1/3 I've an idea, my man, that you are one of the wharf rats; and, if so, the less lip you give me the better.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Wharf-Rats. 1. Rats that inhabit wharves. 2. Thieves that infest the wharves of seaport towns.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 269 Lolling on long-boats,..as sailors and old wharf rats are accustomed to do.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† wharfn.2
Obsolete.
A crowd, assembly. In the first quot. from Laȝamon's Brut perhaps = change (Old English hwearf: cf. Old Frisian hwarf, werf, Old High German warba, Middle High German warbe (with numerals) time(s, (Middle) Low German werf, warf, (-ve) turn, time; cf. wharve v.).
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > assembly for conversation
wharfOE
conversazione1789
baraza1863
hen-cackle1907
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered
weredc725
trumec893
thrumOE
wharfOE
flockOE
farec1275
lithc1275
ferd1297
companyc1300
flotec1300
routc1300
rowc1300
turbc1330
body1340
numberc1350
congregation1382
presencec1390
meiniec1400
storec1400
sum1400
manya1425
collegec1430
peoplec1449
schoola1450
turm1483
catervea1492
garrison?a1513
shoal1579
troop1584
bevy1604
roast1608
horde1613
gross1617
rhapsody1654
sortment1710
tribe1715
OE Guthlac A 263 Beorg ymbstodan hwearfum wræcmæcgas.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8727 Þider com Aurilie..& al his folc mid him. a Whiten-sunendæie he þer wærf makede [Wace Altre gent assés assambla Feste tint].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1036 Þus is þis eit-lond i-gon from honde to hond. þet alle þa burhȝes þe Brutus iwrohte..beoð swiðe afelled þurh warf of þon folke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
wharfv.
/wɔːf/, U.S. /(h)wɔrf/ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > embank > strengthen (bank)
wharf1569
to stank back1656
1569 in Court Minutes Surrey & Kent Sewer Comm. (London County Council) (1909) 6 To..cope and wharfe xxiiijte roddes of the walle.
1615 Court-roll of Great Waltham Manor, Essex (MS.) Preceptum est..sufficienter cumulare (Anglicè, to wharfe) fossatum suum.
1618 in F. Devon Issues Exch. (1836) 335 For three bridges to go over the sewers, and for wharfing the sides with strong timber.
1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 162 The houses are for the most part raised on the Sea-banks and wharfed out with great industry and cost.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1667 (1955) III. 476 I proposed to my L: Chancelor Monsieur Kiviets undertaking to wharfe the whole river of Thames or Key, from the Temple to the Tower..with brick.
1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. iii. 87 The Mill Tayl, or Floor for the Water below the Wheels is Wharft up on either Side with Stone,..at the End of this Wharfing is a Grating of Wood.
1793 R. Mylne Rep. Surv. Thames improving Navigation 37 The Road ought to be raised and wharfed.
2. To bring to shore or discharge at a wharf.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > bring to wharf
wharf1629
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > put off or discharge (from) a ship > at a wharf
wharf1629
1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime viii. 87 A Master of an English Barke..who had wharft ouer a hundred French.
1694 London Gaz. No. 3024/4 Goods will be Wharfed here at easier Rates than heretofore.
1798 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) 2 351 Every species of property (whether landed, funded, wharfed, warehoused, or shipped).
1803 W. Tatham Rep. Impediments Thames 73 Nor would it be a very difficult matter to dock or wharf the whole of their commerce.
3. To accommodate (vessels) at a wharf.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > furnish with harbours or ports [verb (transitive)] > furnish with dock, quay, or pier > accommodate at a wharf
wharf1902
1902 Times 1 Nov. 5/6 A large stone basin, capable of wharfing a dozen battleships of the first class.
4. intransitive. To come to wharf.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor [verb (intransitive)] > come to wharf
wharf1891
1891 Voice (N.Y.) 1 Jan. When the Mayflower wharfed at Plymouth Rock.
1901 Daily Chron. 4 June 3/4 The Royal Squadron wharfed..at half-past seven.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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