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English
Etymology
From Middle English wharfage; equivalent to wharf + -age.
Pronunciation
Noun
wharfage (countable and uncountable, plural wharfages)
- A dock, quay, or pier.
- Synonym: dockage
- Wharfs collectively.
- Synonym: dockage
1924, Saki, “The Old Town of Pskoff”, in The Square Egg and Other Sketches, London: John Lane, page 156:It is pleasant to swim well out into the stream of the river, and, with one’s chin on a level with the wide stretch of water, take in a “trout’s-eye view” of the little town, ascending in tiers of wharfage, trees, grey ramparts, more trees, and clustered roofs, with the old cathedral of the Trinity poised guardian-like above the crumbling walls of the Kremlin.
1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Coley Branch, G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 317:It was also pointed out wharfage and factory sites with river and canal frontage were adjoining.
- A fee charged for using a wharf.
- Synonym: dockage
- Coordinate terms: shorage, demurrage, cranage, tonnage, shippage; pilotage
1895, John Houston Merrill, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, page 100:If the owner of goods deposited at a wharf sells them, and gives notice to the wharfinger of such sale, on tendering the wharfage then due, he is discharged from liability for future wharfage.
1913, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Water terminal and transfer facilities, page 537:the wharfage or shorage rates are 10 cents per cord of wood, 10 cents per thousand feet of lumber, and 1 cent per tie, and these rates do not include handling
Derived terms
Middle English
Etymology
From wharf + -age.
Pronunciation
Noun
wharfage (uncountable) (rare)
- utilisation of a wharf
- wharfage (wharf fee)
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