Structure built on piles along the shore of a harbor or on the bank of a river or canal where ships dock.
Sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked.
1 Right now the village's wharves would be well above the water line.
2 Parts are stamped out in the factories and assembled at the wharves .
3 There will be dancing in the wharves every night of the week.
4 The sight of the wharves and the ships seemed to stun her.
5 The wharves along the river side became the scene of immense activity.
6 Already the ends of the wharves were white with groups of natives.
7 They may construct and control public wharves , and regulate and license ferries.
8 The waterfront contains rough wharves and is lined with storehouses and factories.
9 We skirt the shore of this busy water, with its wharves , etc.
10 She dropped sail as she ran alongside the busy wharves of Goletta.
11 City of wharves and stores-cityof tall façades of marble and iron!
12 He owned a fish and chip shop and worked on the wharves .
13 Nothing that happens off the wharves has any power to move them.
14 Yet the surges are wont to deal very tenderly with these wharves .
15 At Hamburg the Hamburg-American Line wharves were mobilised for submarine construction also.
16 They broke through their opponents, and began a rush to the wharves .
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