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Wharf vs Trestle - What's the difference?

wharf | trestle |

As nouns the difference between wharf and trestle

is that wharf is a man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank while trestle is a horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.

wharf

English

(wikipedia wharf)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
  • * Bancroft
    • Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.
  • * Tennyson
    • Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame.
  • The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf

    Synonyms

    * (landing place) dock; quay

    Hyponyms

    * (landing place) jetty; pier; staithe, staith (Northern England)

    Derived terms

    * wharfage * wharfie * wharf rat * wharfinger

    See also

    * dock English nouns with irregular plurals

    trestle

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia trestle) (en noun)
  • A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
  • A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
    • He turned the knob, but the door was locked. Retracing his steps past a vacant lot, the young man entered a shop where a colored man was employed in varnishing a coffin, which stood on two trestles in the middle of the floor.
  • A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
  • A trestle bridge.

    • Derived terms

    * trestle bed * trestle board * trestle table * trestle-tree * trestle-work

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