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Pier vs Wharfage - What's the difference?

pier | wharfage |

As nouns the difference between pier and wharfage

is that pier is a raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty while wharfage is a dock; quay; or pier.

pier

English

(wikipedia pier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
  • A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
  • (US, nautical) A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided.
  • A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.
  • (architecture) A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof.

    • Derived terms

    * abutment pier * pier glass * pierlike * pier table

    See also

    * jetty * mole * wharf

    Anagrams

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    wharfage

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A dock; quay; or pier
  • A fee charged for using a wharf.
  • *1895 , John Houston Merrill, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law , p. 100.
  • *:If the owner of goods deposited at a wharf sells them, and gives notice to the wharfinger of such sale, on tendering the wharfage' then due, he is discharged from liability for future ' wharfage .
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    • Coordinate terms

    * (wharf usage fee) shorage, demurrage, cranage, tonnage, shippage