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Quay vs Wharfage - What's the difference?

quay | wharfage |

As nouns the difference between quay and wharfage

is that quay is (nautical) a stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf while wharfage is a dock; quay; or pier.

As a verb quay

is to land or tie up at a quay or similar structure, especially used in the phrase "quay up".

quay

English

(wikipedia quay)

Alternative Forms

*cay

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.

    • Derived terms

    * quayside

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To land or tie up at a quay or similar structure, especially used in the phrase "quay up".

    • See also

    * dock; pier; float; cay; harbour, harbor; mole; riprap; wharf ----

    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