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Answer for the clue "Where stevedores toil ", 6 letters:
wharfs

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wharf \Wharf\, n.; pl. Wharfs or Wharves . [AS. hwerf, hwearf, a returning, a change, from hweorfan to turn, turn about, go about; akin to D. werf a wharf, G. werft, Sw. varf a shipbuilder's yard, Dan. verft wharf, dockyard, G. werben to enlist, to ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (plural of wharf English) n. (plural of wharf English)

Usage examples of wharfs.

Saw Mill, past the wharfs and the factories, the cranes, the houses, the walls and beaches, the fettered ships at their moorings, the heavy, loaded barges, the docks and warehouses and rubbish dumps and old forgotten workings, past the low banks and the little hills, to the wide, gull-haunted reaches, and the great sands, and the sea.

Unlike the buildings in the town square, the doors to the three warehouses that stand behind the river wharfs are all open, and lancers are carting out some provisions-and blades.