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WHARF , a place for loading or unloadingSee also: ships or vessels, particularly a platform of See also: timber, See also: stone or other material along the
See also: shore of a harbour or along the See also: bank of a navigable See also: river against which vessels may lie and discharge their cargo or be. loaded
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The O
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Eng. word hwerf meant literally a turning or turning-place (hweor See also: fan, to turn, cf
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Goth. hwairban, Gr
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Kapa6s, See also: wrist), and was thus used particularly of a bank of See also: earth, a See also: dam which turns, the flow of a stream; the cognate word in Dutch, well, meant a wharf or a shipbuilder's yard, cf
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See also: Dan. vaerft,, dockyard, and the current meaning of the word is probably borrowed from Dutch or Scandinavian See also: languages
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In See also: English See also: law all See also: water-See also: borne goods must be landed at specified places, in particular See also: hours and under supervision; wharves, which by the See also: Merchant See also: Shipping See also: Act 1895, § 492, include quays, docks and other premises on which goods may be lawfully landed, are either " sufferance wharves," authorized by the commissioners of customs under bond, or " legal wharves " specially appointed by See also: treasury warrant and exempt from bond
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There are also wharves authorized by See also: statute or by prescriptive right
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