wharfside

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noun

The side of a wharf, where goods may be loaded and unloaded.

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Meanings

nounwharfside (plural wharfsides)

plural wharfsides

  1. The side of a wharf, where goods may be loaded and unloaded.

    Rather, on a dreary January afternoon, Dumbo resembles the set of “Blade Runner,” or some futuristic movie in which humans and robots and aliens with tentacles coming out of their foreheads hang out playing chess or shooting one another with purple lasers in a seamy wharfside bar.

    2007 January 25, Alex Kuczynski, “Crochet Undergoes an Upgrade”, in New York Times

Origin

From wharf + side.

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APA

wharfside. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wharfside

MLA

“wharfside.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wharfside. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wharfside,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wharfside.

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