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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a wharf" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a structure on the shore of a harbor where ships dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
Example: "The cargo was unloaded at a wharf before being transported to the warehouse."
Alternatives: "a dock" or "a pier".
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73 "Seismic Analysis of a Wharf Seawall".
She was dropped off by boat at a wharf on Basilan, near the town of Maluso.
Four dancers move back and forth among four tree posts, perhaps the remnants of a wharf.
There is a wharf on the west coast at Arutanga, which is the main settlement.
A wharf at Falehau, on the north side of the island, offers anchorage for yachts.
Coke arms them with firearms he imports illegally, via a wharf located adjacent to Tivoli Gardens.
John Sorlien was docked at a wharf financed by the taxpayers of Rhode Island.
There was already a wharf and a Chinese store and saloon there.
I don't know how a wharf tumbles, but that was the least of my problems while reading.
He leaped out with the net and darted down a wharf, a lit cigarette dangling from his mouth.
In their tiny, ramshackle playhouse on a wharf, they produced his one-act sea play Bound East for Cardiff.
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