wharves in English

noun

1

a level quayside area to which a ship may be moored to load and unload.

In an interview, Clifford Palacio said that employment included work in the fields and also on wharves loading ships.

synonyms: quay, pier, dock, berth, landing, jetty, harbor, dockyard, marina, harborside

noun

• quay, pier, dock, berth, landing, jetty, harbor, dockyard, marina, harborside
• wharfage, pier, dock

Use "wharves" in a sentence

1. Deserted like the wharves at dawn.

2. I remember the black wharves and slips.

3. There are several wharves in Halifax Harbour.

4. Alongshoreman.] One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of

5. Ko Lan has 1,567 hotel and resort rooms and two wharves.

6. Everport’s proposed $58 million project would improve Berths 226-229 wharves and increase Berth depth from 45’ to 53’, and improve Berths 230-232 wharves to a 47’ Berth depth

7. The canal does not smell, and small fish swim between the pylons supporting cargo wharves.

8. Barnacles are usually found attached to ships, rocks, wharves, marine animals and to other hard surfaces.

9. While the American engineers built the airstrips and wharves, the Australians worked on the roads and accommodation.

10. The newly created basin will accommodate approximately 52 additional berths, and new wharves with water and electrical services.

11. The Julia, Erato, and upper Poydras wharves were developed as the site of the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition.

12. Project vessels shall not approach concentrations of seaducks or waterfowl when anchoring equipment, accessing wharves, or ferrying supplies.

13. Several Japanese ships had been sunk, a seaplane base damaged, and fires started among the wharves and warehouses.

14. Plans are underway for billions of dollars of improvements – larger cranes, bigger railyard facilities, deeper channels, and expanded wharves.

15. Clippership Wharf is a medium-density apartment and condominium housing project located on two abandoned historic wharves in East Boston

16. Alongshoreman.] one of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels

17. The rafts and the wharves were lined with standing bodies, and people were pushing down through the woods on either side.

18. Alongshoreman.] one of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels

19. Alongshoreman.] One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels

20. Bubonic plague is not directly associated with water, but the rats which carried it arrived by boat at riverside wharves.

21. 21 Pan music, the latent harmony in metal, resurrected from debris on the wharves and refineries of Trinidad by illiterate laborers.

22. Someday I shall go to the tropical lands of my birth, to the coasts of continents and the tiny wharves of island shores.

23. A total of 58 were built for the Soviet Navy at the Sudomekh division of the Admiralty Shipyard (now Admiralty Wharves), St. Petersburg.

24. From now on ‘scabs’ or ‘free labourers’ belonging to a new Arbitrationist union could be brought on to the wharves to load and unload ships

25. Between 1631 and 1890, the city tripled its area through land reclamation by filling in marshes, mud flats, and gaps between wharves along the waterfront.

26. As a harbor pilot he should be able to maneuver a ship through, to and from places in narrow waters unfamiliar to the shipmaster, and place it at anchorage, buoys or wharves, as required.