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wharve

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wharve [wɔːv]
n
(Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a wooden disc or wheel on a shaft serving as a flywheel or pulley
[Old English hweorfa, from hweorfan to revolve; related to Old Saxon hwervo axis, Old High German hwerbo a turn]
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Ogg's, which shows its aged, fluted red roofs and the broad gables of its wharves between the low wooded hill and the river-brink, tingeing the water with a soft purple hue under the transient glance of this February sun.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
From the wharves I strolled around and over the town, gazing with won- der and admiration at the splendid churches, beauti- ful dwellings, and finely-cultivated gardens; evincing an amount of wealth, comfort, taste, and refinement, such as I had never seen in any part of slaveholding Maryland.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
Two men were promenading up and down the wharves, among the crowd of natives and strangers who were sojourning at this once straggling village-- now, thanks to the enterprise of M.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
 
 
 
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