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wharfage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • [ˈwoɹ.fɪd͡ʒ] wine–whine merger
  • /ˈʍoɹ.fɪd͡ʒ/ without the wine–whine merger
  • /ˈwɔː.fɪd͡ʒ/ wine–whine merger
  • [ˈwɔː.fɪd͡ʒ] wine–whine merger
  • /ˈʍɔː.fɪd͡ʒ/ without the wine–whine merger
  • /ˈʍɔɹ.fɪd͡ʒ/ without the wine–whine merger
  • [ˈʍɔː.fɪd͡ʒ] without the wine–whine merger
  • /ˈwoɹ.fɪd͡ʒ/ wine–whine merger
  • /ˈwɔɹ.fɪd͡ʒ/ wine–whine merger
  • [ˈwɔɹ.fɪd͡ʒ] wine–whine merger
  • [ˈʍoɹ.fɪd͡ʒ] without the wine–whine merger
  • [ˈʍɔɹ.fɪd͡ʒ] without the wine–whine merger

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną Proto-West Germanic *hwerban Old English hweorfan Middle English wharf Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age Middle English wharfage English wharfage From Middle English wharfage; equivalent to wharf + -age.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A dock, quay, or pier.
  2. (countable, uncountable) 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 poised guardian-like above the crumbling walls of the Kremlin. 1924, Saki, “The Old Town of Pskoff”, in The Square Egg and Other Sketches, London: John Lane, page 156:
    • It was also pointed out wharfage and factory sites with river and canal frontage were adjoining. 1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Coley Branch, G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 317:
  3. (countable, uncountable) 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:
    • 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 1913, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Water terminal and transfer facilities, page 537:

Forms

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Coordinates

cranage · shorage · tonnage · demurrage · pilotage · shippage

Deriveds

wharfinger

Relateds

marina

Synonyms

dockage · dockage · dockage