Stevedore vs Wharf - What's the difference?
stevedore | wharf |
To load or unload a ship's cargo.
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 stevedore and wharf
is that stevedore is a dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo while wharf is a man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.As a verb stevedore
is to load or unload a ship's cargo.stevedore
English
(wikipedia stevedore)Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(stevedor)References
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