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Breastfast :: Breastfast (n.) A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel..

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.

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

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

Pier :: Pier (n.) A projecting wharf or landing place.

Wharfed :: Wharfed (imp. & p. p.) of Whar.

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.

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

Quayage :: Quayage (n.) Wharfage.

Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

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

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

Wharfing :: Wharfing (n.) Wharfs, collectively..

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..

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

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

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

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

Wharf :: Wharf (n.) The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea..

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