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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

wharfside en · NOUN

Etymology

From wharf + side.

Meanings

  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:

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wharfsides Number=Plur lexicographic