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wharf

Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːf/

The English word “wharf” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
  2. Any bank of a river or shore of a sea.

verb

  1. To secure by a wharf.
  2. To place on a wharf.

Etymology

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”).

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