Wharf vs Dockyard - What's the difference?
wharf | dockyard |
A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
* Bancroft
* Tennyson
The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between wharf and dockyard
is that wharf is a man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank while dockyard is a place where ships are repaired or outfitted.wharf
English
(wikipedia wharf)Noun
(en-noun)- Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.
- Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame.
- the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf