Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A structure in the form of a wharf; materials of which a wharf is constructed; wharves in general.
- noun In hydraulic engin., a method of facing seawalls by the use of sheet-piling anchored to the bank.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Wharfs, collectively.
- noun (Hydraul. Engin.) A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
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- noun
Wharfs collectively. - noun engineering A technique of
facing seawalls andembankments withplanks driven aspiles and secured byties .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As logs are lashed, he lists the many benefits to Astoria of bringing in a log exporter, including dozens of $40-an-hour stevedore jobs filled with every shipload, and some $100,000 in wharfing fees each month.
Log Exports Hammer Lumber Mills Joel Millman 2011
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This area used to be an old wharfing district back in the day -- but now it's sort of the hip-spot in town, though its main street (Frasier Avenue) is under ridiculously heavy construction at the moment.
April 19th, 2005 driveforlife 2005
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Too, there were two or three fellows of Port Cos there, those who had set up the outjutting display beams, and would presumably handle the forward lines in wharfing.
Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986
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A wise man would start looking at wharfing, real estate, airfields, in Aberdeen.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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A wise man would start looking at wharfing, real estate, airfields, in Aberdeen.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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To them Montreal is a convenient sea-wharfing spot to conduct big business; otherwise a French Canadian city and so, hopeless.
The Masques of Ottawa Domino
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In the organization of this transport the constant and helpful cooperation of the Shipping Board, the railroads, and those in control of warehousing, wharfing, lighterage, and other terminal facilities has been invaluable.
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The San Marco glided into a bayou, -- under a high wharfing of timbers, where a bearded fisherman waited, and a woman.
Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Persons wharfing are directed to leave a space for a street wherever the general plan of the city requires it, yet the engraved plan has been so far departed from as to be useless as a guide, while the office plans have never been carried to the extent necessary to determine where those spaces for streets must be.
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This erroneous mode of wharfing seems to have been introduced when im - mediate interest only was considered, and without an anticipa - tion of the growth and population to which the towns were destined to arrive.
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