English

Noun

wharfage ‎(plural wharfages)

1. A dock; quay; or pier
2. A fee charged for using a wharf.
   • 1895, John Houston Merrill, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, p. 100.

     If the owner of goods deposited at a wharf sells them, and gives notice to the wharfinger of such sale, on tendering the wharfage then due, he is discharged from liability for future wharfage.

   • 1913, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Water terminal and transfer facilities, page 537:

     the wharfage or shorage rates are 10 cents per cord of wood, 10 cents per thousand feet of lumber, and 1 cent per tie, and these rates do not include handling

Coordinate terms

• (wharf usage fee): shorage, demurrage, cranage, tonnage, shippage