wharf

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɔːf/    美 /ˈwɔɹf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
    — Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.
  2. Any bank of a river or shore of a sea. obsolete
    — the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf
动词 v.
  1. To secure by a wharf. transitive
  2. To place on a wharf. transitive

词形变化

wharves plural wharfs plural wharfs present,singular,third-person wharfing participle,present wharfed participle,past wharfed past

词汇关系

衍生词
Cams Wharf Canary Wharf government wharf marginal wharf Nords Wharf Red Wharf Bay wharfage wharf borer wharf crab wharfie wharfinger wharfless wharf rat wharf roach

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną
Proto-West Germanic *hwerban
Old English hweorfan
Middle English wharf
English wharf
From Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft and Warft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną
Proto-West Germanic *hwerban
Old English hweorfan
Middle English wharf
English wharf
From Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft and Warft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
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