Definitions
Structure beside water where ships can load, unload, or dock.
Word origin
From Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft and Warft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Used in a sentence
“Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.”
“Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame, / And round the prow they read her name, / The Lady of Shalott.”
“the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Platform for ships”5 letters
02“Boat docking place”5 letters
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