wharfward

Manoel and Wolo, accompanied by Palo and two others, came running up from the quarters, and rushed into the hall. It needed but a nod from me to have them take each a rifle, and fall into line on the veranda, before the door, where Kit was pacing back and forth, peering anxiously into the gloom to wharfward.

1872, C. A. Stephens, chapter VII, in On the Amazons; or, The Cruise of "The Rambler." As Recorded by Wash, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, page 104

Mr. Dorman only laughed, and politely ignoring Polly’s proposition to have Joe Milner, who was hopping in the vegetable garden, accompany him, set forth with his face turned wharfward.

1883 November 10, Frank H. Converse, “The Preston Treasure”, in The Woman's Journal, volume XIV, number 45, Boston, Massachusetts, page 358, column 3

The smoke-wing'd argosies of Fortune, bearing Freightage of marvels, are for ever streaming Hither, and wharfward fling with careless seeming The rounded fruit of fight and long seafaring.

1911, William Andrew Mackenzie, “By the Docks”, in Rowton House Rhymes, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 53