• (GA) enPR: wôrf, IPA: /wɔɹf/
• (RP) enPR: wôf, IPA: /wɔːf/
• (wine/whine) enPR: hwôrf, IPA: /hwɔɹf/.

wharf (plural wharves)

1. A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.

   • Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.

   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

     Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame.

2. The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene v]:

     the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf

• (landing place) dock; quay

• French: quai, appontement
• German: Kai, Wharf
• Italian: attracco
• Portuguese: cais
• Russian: при́стань
• Spanish: embarcadero, muelle

wharf (wharfs, present participle wharfing; past and past participle wharfed)

1. (transitive) To secure by a wharf.
2. (transitive) To place on a wharf.