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wharf
/ˈwɔɹf/
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What does wharf mean?
noun
- An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
verb
- To secure by a wharf.
- To place on a wharf.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (obsolete) Any bank of a river or shore of a sea.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈwɔɹf/
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A few moments later, as we hurried forward, the masts of a sailing-ship lying at a wharf came in sight.
They came by Lord Ellesmere's beautiful barge, which drew up alongside our wharf, where the party landed and entered the works.
More book examples (3)
It led Pussy to the docks a block away, and then out on a wharf, away from any cover but the night.
However, there being no block, not even in Nightingale Lane, he reached the entrance of the wharf, and set down his passenger without annoyance.
Yet when the vessel was made fast to the wharf and the crew dismissed, he seemed suddenly to lose all feeling about the matter.