wharf

• On the wharf was a weatherworn sign creaking in the wind. —  The Gravedigger’s Daughter
• Landed at the Tower-wharf, and thence by water to Greenwich; and there coaches met us; and to his house, a very stately sight for situation and brave plantations; and among others, a vine-yard, the first that ever I did see. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys
• The final design for the wharf was signed off by no less a person than the Governor General in June 1924, with work approved to begin on New Year's Day 1925. —  ScreenTalk
• There were several others making for the wharf, and as Stane watched, one by one they drew up, and discharged their complement of passengers. —  A Mating in the Wilds
• On either side, ranged sideways in a long row, as if they were ready to start on a race, were other U-boats, as many as thirty Tom thought, their low decks the scene of much activity On the wharf was a long line of hand trucks, each bearing what he supposed to be a torpedo, and these looked exactly like miniature submarines, minus the conning tower These things he saw in one hurried, bewildered glance, for he was allowed no opportunity for observation. —  Tom Slade on a Transport

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