noun
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A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
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The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
verb
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To secure by a wharf.
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To place on a wharf.
Examples of wharf in a Sentence
Its name is kept in a wharf and a ward of the City.
Franklin arrived in Philadelphia on the 13th of September, disembarking at the same wharf as when he had first entered the city.
A wharf for building and repairing iron steamers was constructed in 1889.
The city has always been a great commercial depot; a wharf nearly two miles long affords ample facilities for vessels able to cross the bar of the Peiho, over which there is a depth of water varying from 9 to 12 ft.
Her latest painting-- another seaside depiction of Fisherman's Wharf-- leaned against one wall, ready to be delivered to Kevin's shop.
In the same year through the influence of Bishop Moore, he obtained the rectory of St Benet's, Paul's Wharf, London.
Connected with the main railway system of the colony is the Darling Harbour Wharf 1260 ft.
There is wharf accommodation on both banks of the river, a graving dock which can be used by vessels up to 5000 tons, and two patent slips which can take up ships of 1000 and 400 tons respectively.
The dock had its own river key situated just east of the entrance lock and a large warehouse, known as Victoria Wharf.
The canal crosses an embankment past an old wharf which served a pumping station.
There was a Russian freighter on the still used upstream wharf, which meant that John's dash across the ebb side on.
Instead, I watched the match at the Wharf pub in Cardiff Bay.
Pelican Wharf consists of 12 bed apartments and one three bed penthouse with clever lightwells and an atrium.
A covered wharf is next with the large building being the old offices of Thomas Morton & Claytons.
To the left is evidence of a former wharf.
The trade is chiefly confined to the shipping of grain, fish, coal, malt and timber, with some cattle and wool, and to the import of coal and tar, but of late years it has declined, despite excellent wharf accommodation and a considerable depth of water (12-15 ft.).
Portions most liable to destruction, those parts between the tide marks, were found perfectly sound, and showed no signs of the ravages of marine organisms. Other valuable timber trees of the eastern portion of the continent are the blackbutt, tallow-wood, spotted gum, red gum, mahogany, and blue gum, eucalyptus; and the turpentine (Syncarpialaurifolia), which has proved to be more resistant to the attacks of teredo than any other timber and is largely used in wharf construction in infested waters.
The company even built a river key with its own large warehouse, Victoria Wharf, just east of the entrance lock.
A wooden railroad viaduct used to reach out to the wharf.
Wigan Pier was named after the wharf on the canal.
Wharf redevelopment continued to put a severe strain on all our engineering resources.
The wharf walls are nearly up to full height.
The old restored wharf building was still to be taken by tenants.
At the north end of the arm only the wharf house at Queens Hill remains.
The end of the Beck had been totally prettified and consisted of being swamped with twiddly wharf side looking houses.
Nassau Bahamas cruises invariably dock at the Prince George Wharf in downtown Nassau.
The twilight cruise departs from Toulouse Street Wharf in the Big Easy and takes passengers on a two-hour voyage that showcases the city's skyline.
The convenient, central location of the Grant is close to shopping downtown, restaurants in Chinatown and boats to Alcatraz at Fisherman's Wharf.
If you happen to be visiting Fisherman's Wharf, another hotspot for San Francisco tourists, you can continue on to Chinatown by riding one of the classic cable cars.
North Beach, located between San Francisco's Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf, is a vibrant neighborhood with an Italian heritage.
North Beach is an easy walk from Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf.
Parking is limited along Columbus and Union Avenues.There are a few small bed and breakfasts in North Beach, but most visitors will prefer to stay either at Union Square, Union Street, or Fisherman's Wharf.
Alcatraz, or as it is less affectionately known, The Rock, is an island of notorious repute in the San Francisco Bay, just over a mile off of the City's touristy Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf.
It's located on the Hyde Street Pier near Fisherman's Wharf.
Yes, there's the Golden Gate Bridge, of course there's Fisherman's Wharf, Alcatraz, and a visit would just not be complete without a drive down the self-proclaimed Crookedest Street in the World.
The Powell-Hyde cable car goes right by the hotel, right past Chinatown, over Nob Hill, past Lombard_Street - "the crookedist street" - and on to Fisherman's Wharf where boats depart for Sausalito, Tiburon and Alcatraz Island.
The Fairmont is one of California's most prestigious places to stay; located where Fisherman's Wharf and Union Square meet, hotel guests find themselves right in the heart of San Francisco's most popular areas.
A guide will greet you as you disembark from your ferry from Fisherman's Wharf and show you some of the sites on the grounds, like the lighthouse, the power plant and the infamous guard tower.
The popular lodging is situated at 495 Jefferson Street, near Fisherman's Wharf.
Visitors begin their Alcatraz trip from the dock at Fisherman's Wharf.
The landing of foreign cattle is permitted by the Board of Trade, and there are cattle lairs and abattoirs near the Cardiff wharf.
The entrance is easy and safe, and the harbour affords secure anchorage for large vessels, with deep water alongside the iron railway wharf.
This replaced the propeller of the ship whose engines were to be tested, and the outer casing was held from turning by a suitable arrangement of levers carried to weighing apparatus conveniently disposed on the wharf.
Making his way up the Roanoke as far as Plymouth he there sank the ironclad at her wharf by exploding a spar-torpedo (October 27).
The suggested origin of the name Antwerp from Hand-werpen (hand-throwing), because a mythical robber chief indulged in the practice of cutting off his prisoners' hands and throwing them into the Scheldt, appeared to Motley rather farfetched, but it is less reasonable to trace it, as he inclines to do, from an t werf (on the wharf), seeing that the form Andhunerbo existed in the 6th century on the separation of Austrasia and Neustria.
The coal was conveyed to the works and for shipment to a wharf on the east bank, on the backs of mules and somewhat later by means of a private canal.
The growth of the Canary Wharf complex has brought in an influx of people, from the fairly affluent to the very rich.
He works for an investment bank in London at Canary Wharf.
Since it opened in 2004, Curve has joined the small coterie of restaurants in Canary Wharf that offers serious wining & dining.
The site of the former royal dockyard, now Convoy's Wharf, is currently under redevelopment.