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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.

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

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

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.

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

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..

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

Wharfs :: Wharfs (pl. ) of Whar.

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

Quayage :: Quayage (n.) Wharfage.

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

Pierage :: Pierage (n.) Same as Wharfage.

Rebuild :: Rebuild (v. t.) To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city..

Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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