wharf
Noun
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
- The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
Verb
Verb Forms: wharfed, wharfing, wharfs
- To moor a vessel to a wharf; to place at a wharf.
- provide with a wharf
- "Wharf the mouth of the river"
- store on a wharf
- "Wharf the merchandise"
- discharge at a wharf
- "wharf the passengers"
- come into or dock at a wharf
- "the big ship wharfed in the evening"
- moor at a wharf
- "The ship was wharfed"
- To secure by a wharf.
- To place on a wharf.
Examples
- He managed to WHARF his ’Q’ word next to a triple-letter score.
Origin / Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną
Proto-West Germanic *hwerban
Old English hweorfan
Middle English wharf
English wharf
From Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft and Warft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Scrabble Score: 14
wharf: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordwharf: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wharf: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
wharf: valid Words With Friends Word