Definitions for wharf

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wharf wharf

Spelling: [hwawrf, wawrf]

IPA: /ʰwɔrf, wɔrf/

Wharf is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in wharf (afhrw).

Definitions for wharf

noun

1. a structure built on the shore of or projecting into a harbor, stream, etc., so that vessels may be moored alongside to load or unload or to lie at rest; quay; pier.
2. Obsolete. a riverbank. the shore of the sea.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a wharf or wharves.
2. to place or store on a wharf:
3. to accommodate at or bring to a wharf:

verb (used without object)

1. to tie up at a wharf; dock:

Origin of wharf

before 1050; Middle English (noun); Old English hwearf embankment; cognate with Middle Low German warf; akin to German Werf pier

Examples for wharf

"Looks as if there were something doing there," said Percival, as they drove off the wharf.

He was followed by the wharf watchman, who looked frightened.

Down the wharf he walked, joyfully, as one who greets an old friend.

We all went ashore in this canoe, then, and were soon alongside of a wharf.

Two of them bore a small chest which they set down on the wharf.

Then bed down in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut, with views of the wharf from your private room at the Steamboat Inn.

There was no wharf, and it was always necessary to get ashore through a surf.

Afterward, stumble out into North Beach and walk it off on a stroll down to the wharf.

When we got back to Charleston, our ship lay at her own wharf, and I saw nothing of my chap.

The wharf is naturally the first point of interest to new-comers.