Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The use of wharves or a wharf.
- noun The charges for this usage.
- noun A group of wharves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Provision of or accommodation at wharves; berthage at a wharf: as, the city had abundant wharfage; to find wharfage for a ship.
- noun Charge or payment for the use of a wharf; the charges or receipts for accommodation at a wharf or at wharves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.
- noun A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
dock ;quay ; orpier - noun A
fee charged for using a wharf.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- noun a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay
Etymologies
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Examples
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The agreement ensures that New Millennium will have the right to export its products over the SIPA owned dock at Sept-Iles at competitive and established long term wharfage rates.
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Then there was a clamorous demand for "wharfage," and the hackman charged half a dollar for taking me a quarter of a mile.
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Since the arrival of container ships in the 1960s, with their need for giant cranes and open acres of wharfage, the 43 deepwater "finger piers" of San Francisco's northeastern waterfront have largely become an anachronism.
Free to Focus on the Pictures Inside David Littlejohn 2011
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By 1900, Cardiff was exporting 5 million tons of coal annually from more than 14 miles of seething dockside wharfage.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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Then there was a clamorous demand for “wharfage,” and the hackman charged half a dollar for taking me a quarter of a mile.
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The merchants of Truro formerly used it for the place of lading and unlading their ships, as the merchants of Exeter did at Topsham; and this is the more probable in that, as above, the wharfage of those landing-places is still the property of the corporation of
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The merchants of Truro formerly used it for the place of lading and unlading their ships, as the merchants of Exeter did at Topsham; and this is the more probable in that, as above, the wharfage of those landing-places is still the property of the corporation of
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The Truro-men also receive several duties collected in Falmouth, particularly wharfage for the merchandises landed or shipped off; but let these advantages be what they will, the town of Falmouth has gotten the trade — at least, the best part of it — from the other, which is chiefly owing to the situation.
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First, that all marchants of the sayd kingdomes and countreys may come into our kingdome of England, and any where else into our dominion with their marchandises whatsoeuer safely and securely vnder our defence and protection without paying wharfage, pontage, or pannage.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Truro-men also receive several duties collected in Falmouth, particularly wharfage for the merchandises landed or shipped off; but let these advantages be what they will, the town of Falmouth has gotten the trade — at least, the best part of it — from the other, which is chiefly owing to the situation.
chained_bear commented on the word wharfage
"When a wharfinger receives a sum of money for wharfage, porterage, and sufferage, according to the custom of trade, he is bound to deliver the goods in safety, on board the destined vessel, and is also responsible for any loss or damage that may be sustained through his negligence."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 627
October 12, 2008
sonofpeleus commented on the word wharfage
Nice addition, chained_bear, but it sounds more like a condition brought on by undercooked food or overexposure to the image of Amy Winehouse.
February 18, 2009