Definitions for wharves

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Spelling: [hwawrvz, wawrvz]

IPA: /ʰwɔrvz, wɔrvz/

Wharves is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in wharves (aehrsvw).

Definitions for wharves

noun

1. a plural of wharf.
2. 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.
3. Obsolete. a riverbank. the shore of the sea.
4. Spinning. a wheel or round piece of wood on a spindle, serving as a flywheel or as a pulley.

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 wharves

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

Examples for wharves

At the wharves at Launceston the tide rises from twelve to fourteen feet.

Some were pursued and cut down, others escaped by swimming to the wharves.

Think of the great wide flowing river with its wharves and its boats.

And drawing lazily on his cigar Dillon was watching a new line of wharves.

The musketry fire on the wharves showed that there were troops stationed there.

He had been down to the wharves since early in the morning, seeking for employment.

Most of this is now a thing of the past and the dredges lie rotting at the wharves.

The cabman druv 'im to somewhere on South Street, by the wharves.

He was in the habit of sitting on the wharves and watching the ships.

That afternoon Wade and I went down to the wharves to make inquiries.