Meanings of long wharves in English

On the long wharves a great number of men were working loading and unloading vessels.

The long wharves and shed roofs glistened with moisture.

From long wharves, river steamers, laden to the gunwales, steam past the city shores to Sacramento.

The council had authorized two long wharves, one at the foot of Clay street, 547 feet long.

The stone continued to lean out toward the end of one of the long wharves thrusting into the lake.

Barges were tied up at the long wharves, and these were piled high with wares and flanked by squat warehouses.

At the long wharves it is transshipped from the deep-water vessels, across forty feet of crazy wooden pier, to the river steamers.

Off the long wharves at the southernmost limits of the city, the rapid boat overtook and passed low-riding, slowly moving stone-barges laden with quarry slaves.

Long wharves-onewas for years called the Long Wharf even after there were others built much longer-ledout over the shallow water.