noun
definition
A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
definition
The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
Examples of wharves in a Sentence
At Balboa there are three wharves, one 985 ft.
It is a poor and crowded district, and a large industrial population is employed in the riverside wharves and in potteries, glassworks and other manufactures.
There are wharves on both sides of the river, and the staple exports are sugar, golden-syrup and timber.
Vessels of 200 tons can lie at the wharves near the bridge.
On the south side of the river are numerous large docks and wharves, while the city proper on the north side consists of a labyrinth of basins and canals with tree-bordered quays.
After La Guayra the harbour is the principal port of Venezuela, and it is provided with mole, wharves, railway communication with the interior, and other facilities for the handling of merchandise and produce.
It possesses excellent wharves, does a large import trade in coal, and has shipbuilding yards, breweries, distilleries, cloth aid paper factories, glass-works, copper-works, soap-works and rice mills.
Vessels of the largest tonnage can enter and lie alongside of the wharves, which are 5 m.
Whole forests, vast quarries of granite, and hills of gravel were used in fringing the water margins, constructing wharves, piers and causeways, redeeming flats, and furnishing piling and solid foundations for buildings.
The harbour has an inner and outer division, with wet dock and wharves.
The principal wharves, where passengers, mails and general merchandise are landed, are along the Point.
The banks of the port are closely lined with the offices, warehouses and wharves of commercial houses, with timber yards and innumerable ricemills, while the custom house, the harbour master's office and many of the foreign legations and consulates are also situated here.
Wesel carries on a considerable trade in grain, timber, colonial goods, tobacco, &c., facilitated by new harbour accommodation and wharves at the mouth of the Lippe.
Railways connect the harbour with the town, and the town with Motupiko, &c. The harbour, with extensive wharves, is protected by the long and remarkable Boulder Bank, whose southern portion forms the natural breakwater to that anchorage.
The city is traversed by two branches of the Mottlau, a small tributary of the Vistula, dredged to a depth of 15 ft., thus enabling large vessels to reach the wharves of the inner town.
The southern districts are occupied by sailors and labourers in the St Katherine and London Docks and the wharves and factories lining the river-bank.
There is extensive quayage, and the largest wool ships are able to load alongside the wharves, which are connected by rail with all parts of the colony.
Tairen is provided with wharves to accommodate the largest ocean steamers, the wharves having a vertical face with 28 ft.
These are the old wharves which were separated by wide waterways.
Landing places near the City were at a premium and new wharves and warehouses were built to accommodate the growing trade.
On the seaward side they make their way between close-packed building to the private wharves that seem to lie behind every house and shop.
They would have allowed small boats to deliver goods directly to market without having to offload their cargoes at riverside wharves.
Shippers were rather tired of waterside wharves, with their lack of warehouse room, and lighterage was increasingly troublesome and expensive.
Many of these loading wharves can still be seen today.
Also on this section, before the wharves, is an old converted windmill.
And now Lovell 's is joining Convoys, Borthwick and Paynes Wharves in Deptford in the the roll-call of controversial riverfront developments.
Cargo handling thames hotels takes place on about 100 riverside wharves between Deptford and Canvey Island as well as at enclosed docks at Tilbury.
When it was light I peeped through the portholes and saw Belfast 's dull wharves and warehouses looking sulky in the gray morning mist.
After tramping a mile they reached a wide vacancy on the deserted wharves, and in this dark and rainy desert they parted.
The use of safeguarded wharves saves over 950,000 trips by heavy goods vehicles a year on London 's roads.
The head of Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney Cove, the shallow bay between Dawes and Millers Point, and Darling Harbour, are lined with wharves.
When it was light I peeped through the portholes and saw Belfast's dull wharves and warehouses looking sulky in the gray morning mist.
The use of safeguarded wharves saves over 950,000 trips by heavy goods vehicles a year on London's roads.
Railroad lines run to the newly built wooden wharves in the foreground.
Elements, who ceased canal carrying during the 1960's, once had several canal side wharves in the Oldbury area.
New sidings were added on both sides of the Manchester Ship Canal to serve coal wharves on the canal.
Gone were all the working wharves in their stead were thousands of riverside flats.
All along the inner city section their were once short arms leading both north and south into small wharves and basins.
In the year to April 2002 the two commercial wharves handled some 470 vessels.
Docks, wharves, piers, curing stations and warehouses have been provided or enlarged to cope with the growth of the trade, and an esplanade has been constructed along the front.
Industry and Commerce.-Boston is fringed with wharves.
Hellevoetsluis is an important naval station, and possesses a naval arsenal, dry and wet docks, wharves and a naval college for engineers.
The whole of the eastern side of Darling Harbour is occupied by a succession of wharves and piers, there being in all 4000 ft.
Its lower course from Lubeck to the sea has been dredged to a depth of 25 ft., permitting sea-going vessels to lie alongside the wharves and quays.
For the better accommodation of the increasing commerce of the port of Boston, the commonwealth bought a considerable frontage upon the harbour lines and constructed a dock capable of receiving the largest vessels, and has supplemented the work of the United States government in deepening the approaches to the wharves.
The badge of Rostock is the figure 7; and a local rhyme explains that there are 7 doors to St Mary's church, 7 streets from the market-place, 7 gates on the landward side and 7 wharves on the seaward side of the town, 7 turrets on the town-hall, which has 7 bells, and 7 linden trees in the park.
The extensive water-front is lined with wharves, some of which can accommodate the largest ocean steamers.
In order to counterbalance their rivalry, the quays have been extended, a canal was opened in 1900 between the Trave and the Elbe, the river up to the wharves has been deepened to 25 ft.
The town has shipbuilding wharves, machine works, and several tanneries and brick-works, and has a total trade of over 16,000,000 marks, the chief export being timber.
The development of this trade is favoured by the canals which connect the Rhine with the Rhone and the Marne, and by a new port of 250 acres in extent with quays and wharves on the Rhine, which has been constructed since 1891.