Word Meanings - WHARFAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.

• Privileged
  of Privilege
• Usefulness
  The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage.
• Ustorious
  Having the quality of burning.
• Usurp
  To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him.
• LOADSTARLODESTAR
  A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.
• Quayage
  Wharfage.
• Useless
  Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.
• Ustulate
  Blackened as if burned.
• Usurpant
  Usurping; encroaching.
• LOADSTONELODESTONE
  A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.
• Collectively
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• Unload
  To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.
• User
  One who uses.
• Ustulation
  The act of burning or searing.
• Usurpation
  The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used
• USBEGSUSBEKS
  A Turkish tribe which about the close of the 15th century conquered, and settled in, that part of Asia now called Turkestan. [Written also Uzbecks, and Uzbeks.]
• Goods
  See Good, n., 3.
• Unloader
  One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon.
• Usher
  An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theat
• Usual
  Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.

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