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1. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
   - pier, wharfage, dock

1. Provide with a wharf
   "Wharf the mouth of the river"
    
2. Store on a wharf
   "Wharf the merchandise"
    
3. Discharge at a wharf
   "wharf the passengers"
    
4. Come into or dock at a wharf
   "the big ship wharfed in the evening";
   - moor, berth
    
5. Moor at a wharf
   "The ship was wharfed"

Derived forms: wharfed, wharves, wharfing, wharfs

Type of: berth, discharge, dock, drop, drop off, furnish, moor, platform, provide, put down, render, set down, store, supply, tie up, unload

Encyclopedia: Wharf