Meaning of wharfward | Babel Free

Definitions

Towards a wharf; in the direction of a wharf.

not-comparable, uncommon

Examples

“Manoel and Wolo, accompanied by Palo and two others, came running up from the quarters, and rushed into the hall. It needed but a nod from me to have them take each a rifle, and fall into line on the veranda, before the door, where Kit was pacing back and forth, peering anxiously into the gloom to wharfward.”

“Mr. Dorman only laughed, and politely ignoring Polly’s proposition to have Joe Milner, who was hopping in the vegetable garden, accompany him, set forth with his face turned wharfward.”

“But Alfs eyes gazed wharfward till the last flutter of a handkerchief faded, then he gulped very hard and disappeared till dinner-time; […]”

“The smoke-wing'd argosies of Fortune, bearing Freightage of marvels, are for ever streaming Hither, and wharfward fling with careless seeming The rounded fruit of fight and long seafaring.”

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