Noun: wharf
| Singular | wharf |
| Plural | wharves; wharfs |
Sample Sentences
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Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea. [1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:]
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Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame, / And round the prow they read her name, / The Lady of Shalott. [1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part IV, page 86:]
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the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:]
Nouns inflected like wharf
Mobius scarf,
Moebius scarf,
head-scarf,
Palestinian scarf,
head scarf,
presheaf,
moebius scarf,
government wharf,
doorleaf,
bloodleaf,
capsheaf,
mobius scarf,
theif,
theef,
wharf,
scarf,
shelf,
sheaf,
headscarf,
cloven hoof, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną
3. Proto-West Germanic *hwerban
4. Old English hweorfan
5. Middle English wharf
6. English wharf
7. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
wharf', Old English Nouns '
hweorfan', German Nouns '
Werft', Dutch Nouns '
werf', Ancient Greek Nouns '
καρπός'.
Verbs referencing "wharf"
Dutch Nouns
werf, Zulu Nouns
ihhofu, German Nouns
Warft.