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Moor :: Moor (v. t.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf..

Jetty :: Jetty (n.) A wharf or pier extending from the shore.

Wharfage :: Wharfage (n.) A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing..

Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.

Stadimeter :: Stade (n.) A landing place or wharf.

Wharfinger :: Wharfinger (n.) A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf..

Quayage :: Quayage (n.) Wharfage.

Ghaut :: Ghaut (n.) Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.

Wharfs :: Wharfs (pl. ) of Whar.

Warehouseman :: Warehouseman (n.) One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.

Wharfing :: Wharfing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whar.

Wharfing :: Wharfing (n.) A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.

Wharf :: Wharf (v. t.) To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.

Berth :: Berth (n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf..

Stage :: Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf..

Quay :: Quay (n.) A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels..

Keyage :: Keyage (n.) Wharfage; quayage.

Wharfage :: Wharfage (n.) The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage..

Wharf :: Wharf (v. t.) To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.

Staithman :: Staith (n.) A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels..

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