| 单词 | wharf |
| 释义 | wharf I. 1. 2. obsolete Synonyms: < a ship maneuvering slowly up to the wharf > < the townsfolk rush to the wharves to welcome with cheers and banners the precious cargo of food — Life > < at the foot of this street … a rude wharf of logs was chained together and moored — American Guide Series: Vermont > < a boy sitting on the edge of the wharf, his feet dangling in the water > dock is usually interchangeable with wharf but can be restricted to signify an enclosed basin which permits the entrance of a vessel for loading or unloading or which, with floodgates and a method of exhausting water, can be used for building or repairing ships < a summer lake cottage with a short dock for canoes and rowboats > < a dock on Occoquan Creek — American Guide Series: Virginia > < the New York docks > < bring a ship into dock for repairs > pier is interchangeable with dock or wharf especially a large or long one shooting out quite a distance into a body of water < a sloping earthen pier for the launching of boats — G.S.Perry > < a fishing dragger unloading its catch at a pier — Don Smith > < pulled the canoe up on the pier to empty it > < the New York harbor piers > quay usually refers to an artificial embankment lying along or projecting from a shore and mainly used for loading or unloading; the term normally applies to wharves or piers characteristic of small places < so she, also, got into the small boat; and together they went in to the quay, and got ashore — William Black > < a quay is a docking facility at which ships lie parallel to the shoreline — New York Times > slip applies to a sloping ramp usually constructed or used where the shore is high and shore water shallow < on the slip a thick water hose was connected from a hydrant to the ship — Vernon Pizer > < rolling barrels down a slip into the ship's hold > berth and less commonly slip (in a second sense) apply to the space between two piers or wharves which gives room for a ship when anchored or not in use, although slip is more common for such a space construed for ferryboat landings or boardings < about to sail from her berth at the foot of Fifth Street — Ships and the Sea > < a deep-chested liner rears through the thin haze, easing her way to a Hudson river berth — American Guide Series: New York City > < transatlantic liners in adjoining slips down at the docks > < a series of steamship piers and ferry slips > jetty although commonly applied to a structure serving as a breakwater for a harbor applies also to a small pier of timbers, usually not very substantial < the harbor, from 30 to 60 feet deep, is protected by white marble jetties — American Guide Series: Florida > < fishermen … take their accustomed places on the wharves and jetties for the summer sport of gawking — Anthony Anable > < a jetty is usually built so that it lies parallel with the direction of the tidal stream, and at such jetties ships should always berth against the stream — Manual of Seamanship > levee applies to an embankment for confining or restricting floodwaters but in the South and West, where a levee is often used for landing, the term is often the equivalent of quay < build emergency levees to control a dangerously rising river > < down by the river's borders the new levees proclaim the grandsons' plans for a resurrected river traffic — American Guide Series: Minnesota > II. transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. 3. intransitive verb |
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