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A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles
Answer for the clue "A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles ", 8 letters:
wharfage
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fee charged for the use of a wharf a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats [syn: pier , wharf , dock ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A dock; quay; or pier 2 A fee charged for using a wharf.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wharfage \Wharf"age\, n. The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage. A wharf or wharfs, collectively; wharfing.
Usage examples of wharfage.
His instincts were duller than those of the black-browed girl, at whom he gazed for idle satisfaction of eye from time to time while she replied demurely and maintained her drama of, the featureless but well-distinguished actors within her bosom,--a round, plump bust, good wharfage and harbourage, he was thinking.
In his advice given to the New England plantation in his "Advertisements" he says: "Now as his Majesty has made you custome-free for seven yeares, have a care that all your countrymen shall come to trade with you, be not troubled with pilotage, boyage, ancorage, wharfage, custome, or any such tricks as hath been lately used in most of our plantations, where they would be Kings before their folly.
In his advice given to the New England plantation in his "Advertisements" he says: "Now as his Majesty has made you custome-free for seven yeares, have a care that all your countrymen shall come to trade with you, be not troubled with pilotage, boyage, ancorage, wharfage, custome, or any such tricks as hath been lately used in most of our plantations, where they would be Kings before their folly.
We must have a manifest so that we can calculate your pilotage payments, harbor dues, wharfage, light fees, and so on.
I want you to buy property, but very quietly: factory areas, wharfage, potential airfields, heliports near the docks.