|
PIERS |
Wharves |
|
DOCKS |
Wharves |
|
QUAYS |
Keys reportedly found at wharves |
|
WHALE |
Huge sea creature makes ends of wharves unstable |
|
|
|
SLIP |
An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or
in a dock; as, Peck slip. |
|
LONGSHOREMAN |
One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves
of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels. |
|
LIGHTER |
A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading
vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or
delivery. |
|
SHIPWORM |
Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo
and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to
wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo. |
|
|
|
GRIBBLE |
A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L.
terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber,
such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America. |
|
DOCK |
The slip or water way extending between two piers or
projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including
the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock. |
|
TEREDO |
...ks which
bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of
ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in A... |