Dictionary Entry
wharf
wharf is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.
- 2noun
The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
- 3transitive verb
To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.
- 4transitive verb
To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.
- 5noun
a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- 6verb
moor at a wharf
"The ship was wharfed"
- 7verb
come into or dock at a wharf
"the big ship wharfed in the evening"
- 8verb
discharge at a wharf
"wharf the passengers"
- 9verb
store on a wharf
"Wharf the merchandise"
- 10verb
provide with a wharf
"Wharf the mouth of the river"
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