wharfage

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But as the owner of the wharf handed them on the third day a bill of twenty-five dollars for wharfage, they took the building out and anchored it in the stream.

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  1. noun The use of wharves or a wharf.
  2. noun The charges for this usage.
  3. noun A group of wharves.

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  • That is to say, the manor house with its vast medieval acreage known as Saffron Fields, shooting rights, fens where anglers spend fortunes to drown worms in Mortimer's river, sundry canals, wharfage, estuaries, not to mention a marina near the Blackwater. —  process 10
  • The port began the first phase of the unitary fee with Royal Caribbean in January, bundling existing tariffs for dockage, wharfage, water and harbor into a $9.86 charge per embarking and disembarking passenger. —  Miami Today News
  • "But we have a rate for wharfage - the fee we assess for every ton coming or going - we have fees on the ships," he said. —  The Facts: News
  • It cleans and dries grain, handles bulk salt, transfers cargo, welcomes occasional cruise ships and offers quarry stone wharfage. —  London Free Press - News
  • Heywood and Jacobs were authorized, if they saw fit, to "collect such rates of toll and wharfage as may be fixed upon by the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County." —  The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
 

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/ˈhwɔrfədʒ/
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