Wharfage

Quick meaning: Wharfage is a noun meaning A dock, quay, or pier.

Meaning

A dock, quay, or pier.

More Meanings

1. Wharfs collectively.
2. A fee charged for using a wharf.

Example Sentences

It was also pointed out wharfage and factory sites with river and canal frontage were adjoining.

the wharfage or shorage rates are 10 cents per cord of wood, 10 cents per thousand feet of lumber, and 1 cent per tie, and these rates do not include handling

If the owner of goods deposited at a wharf sells them, and gives notice to the wharfinger of such sale, on tendering the wharfage then due, he is discharged from liability for future wharfage.

It is pleasant to swim well out into the stream of the river, and, with one’s chin on a level with the wide stretch of water, take in a “trout’s-eye view” of the little town, ascending in tiers of wharfage, trees, grey ramparts, more trees, and clustered roofs, with the old cathedral of the Trinity poised guardian-like above the crumbling walls of the Kremlin.

Word Forms

• wharfages

Synonyms for wharfage

Depending on context, synonyms include dockage, wharf, dock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wharf, dock, quay, wharfing, wharfside, jetty.

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