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wharfages

wharfages is the plural of wharfage.

Meaning of wharfage

Noun

wharfage (countable and uncountable, plural wharfages)

  1. A dock, quay, or pier.
    Synonyms:
    dockage
  2. Wharfs collectively.
    • 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...1924, Saki, “The Old Town of Pskoff”, in The Square Egg and Other Sketches, London: John Lane, page 156
    Synonyms:
    dockage
  3. A fee charged for using a wharf.
    • 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.1895, John Houston Merrill, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, page 100
    Synonyms:
    dockage

Questions about wharfages

What is wharfages the plural of?
Wharfages is the plural of wharfage.

Words near wharfages in the dictionary

  1. wharf rat
  2. wharf rats
  3. wharf roach
  4. wharf roaches
  5. wharfage
  6. wharfages
  7. Wharfe
  8. wharfed
  9. Wharfedale
  10. wharfhead
  11. wharfheads

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