Wharf
A wharf, quay (, also ), staith or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbor or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
Such a structure includes one or more berths (mooring locations), and may also include piers, warehouses, or other facilities necessary for handling the ships. Wharfs are often considered to be a series of docks in which boats are stationed.
Wharf (noun)
A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
Wharf (noun)
The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
Wharf (verb)
To secure by a wharf.
Wharf (verb)
To place on a wharf.
Dock (noun)
Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
Dock (noun)
A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
Dock (noun)
The fleshy root of an animal’s tail.
Dock (noun)
The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
Dock (noun)
The buttocks or anus.
Dock (noun)
A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
Dock (noun)
A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
Dock (noun)
The body of water between two piers.
Dock (noun)
A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
Dock (noun)
A section of a hotel or restaurant.
“coffee dock”
Dock (noun)
A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
Dock (noun)
A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
Dock (noun)
An act of docking; joining two things together.
Dock (noun)
Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
Dock (verb)
To cut off a section of an animal’s tail, to practise a caudectomy.
Dock (verb)
To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
Dock (verb)
To cut off, bar, or destroy.
“to dock an entail”
Dock (verb)
To land at a harbour.
Dock (verb)
To join two moving items.
Dock (verb)
To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
Wharf (noun)
a level quayside area to which a ship may be moored to load and unload.