Ford vs Wharf - What's the difference?
ford | wharf |
A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
* Sir Walter Scott
A stream; a current.
* Spenser
* Dryden
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 a verb ford
is .As a noun wharf is
a man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.ford
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.
- With water of the ford / Or of the clouds.
- Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford .
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