The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a
wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively;
quayage. [1913 Webster]
A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing. [1913
Webster]
Word Net
wharfageNoun
1 a fee charged for the use of a wharf
2 a platform built out from the shore into the
water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
[syn: pier, wharf, dock]
English
Noun
- A dock; quay; or pier
- A fee charged for using
a dock
- 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.
- 1895, John Houston Merrill,
The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, p. 100.
Synonyms
- i-c storage fee demurrage