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wharfside

wharfside noun: the side of a wharf, where goods may be loaded and unloaded.

Noun

wharfside (plural wharfsides)

  1. The side of a wharf, where goods may be loaded and unloaded.
    • Rather, on a dreary January afternoon, Dumbo resembles the set of “Blade Runner,” or some futuristic movie in which humans and robots and aliens with tentacles coming out of their foreheads hang out playing chess or shooting one another with purple lasers in a seamy wharfside bar.2007 January 25, Alex Kuczynski, “Crochet Undergoes an Upgrade”, in New York Times

Forms of wharfside

pluralwharfsides

Origin of wharfside

From wharf + side.

Questions about wharfside

What does wharfside mean?
Wharfside means the side of a wharf, where goods may be loaded and unloaded.
What part of speech is wharfside?
Wharfside is a noun.
What is the plural of wharfside?
The plural of wharfside is wharfsides.

Words near wharfside in the dictionary

  1. wharfman
  2. wharfmaster
  3. wharfmasters
  4. wharfmen
  5. wharfs
  6. wharfside
  7. wharfsides
  8. wharfward
  9. wharfwards
  10. wharl
  11. wharling

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