wharfing

English

Etymology

wharf +‎ -ing

Noun

wharfing (countable and uncountable, plural wharfings)

  1. Wharfs collectively.
  2. The material for constructing a wharf.
  3. (engineering) A technique of facing seawalls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wharfing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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