wharfage
English
Etymology
From Middle English wharfage; equivalent to wharf + -age.
Pronunciation
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Noun
wharfage (countable and uncountable, plural wharfages)
- A dock, quay, or pier.
- Wharfs collectively.
- 1924, Saki “The Old Town of Pskoff” in The Square Egg and Other Sketches, London: John Lane, p. 156,[1]
- 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.
- 1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Coley Branch, G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 317:
- It was also pointed out wharfage and factory sites with river and canal frontage were adjoining.
- 1924, Saki “The Old Town of Pskoff” in The Square Egg and Other Sketches, London: John Lane, p. 156,[1]
- A fee charged for using a wharf.
- 1895, John Houston Merrill, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, p. 100.
- 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.
- 1913, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Water terminal and transfer facilities, page 537:
- 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
- 1895, John Houston Merrill, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, p. 100.
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
wharfage (uncountable) (rare)
Descendants
- English: wharfage
References
- “wharfāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-12-12.
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