Wharf

:For the company Wharf in Hong Kong. See The Wharf (Holdings) Limited.

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A wharf (plural wharfs, or (especially in American English) wharves, collectively wharfing or wharfage) is a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, roughly parallel to and alongside navigable water, where ships are loaded and unloaded. The word wharf comes from the Old English hwearf, meaning heap.

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In the northeast of England the term staithe (from the Norse for landing stage) is also used. A pier extends perpendicularly to the shore.

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The Wharf (Holdings) Limited: The Wharf (Holdings) Limited (?????), or Wharf in short, () is a company founded in 1886 in Hong Kong. As its name suggests, the company's original business was in running wharfage and dockside warehousing, and it was known as The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited and renamed to...

American English: American English (AmE) is the form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. It is the primary language used in the United States. As of 2005, more than two-thirds of native speakers of English use various forms of American English. American English is also sometimes calle...

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Wharf related Images and Photos (experimental)

Old Wharf at Dawn	Old Wharf at Dawn	Fishermans Wharf San Francisco California USA	Wharf at Sunset Reserve Faunique Des Laurentides
Lumber Wharf on the North Pacific Coast c.1880	Canary Wharf Docklands Viewed from Wapping London England United Kingdom Europe	Sun Rises over Echuca Wharf - Echuca Victoria	Ghirardelli Square Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco United States of America
San Francisco Cable Cars Wharf	Custom House and St. Vincent's Wharf Trinidad Engraved by Eugene Ciceri c.1850