A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank. / The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.

(transitive) To secure by a wharf. / (transitive) To place on a wharf.

plural of wharf

Wharfs collectively. / The material for constructing a wharf. / (engineering) A technique of facing seawalls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.

present participle of wharf

plural of wharfing

simple past tense and past participle of wharf

A river in North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, England, which joins the Yorkshire River Ouse. / A hamlet in Austwick parish, Craven district, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref SD7869).

A brown rat. / (slang) A neglected boy who lives around the wharfs. / (slang) A man who hangs around a wharf in the hope of finding temporary work there.

plural of wharf rat