Verb (used with object) : The schedule allowed little time to wharf the cargo. ,The new structure will wharf several vessels.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The ship wharfed in the early morning.    From Dictionary.com. 

But I did not go in the Beaver, which ship "wharfs" some two or three miles further ahead, at Holland River Landing, commonly called "the Landing," par excellence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada and the Canadians Volume I] Reference

"We'll ride to the wharfs-it's only a half a kay south.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Scion of Cyador]

LAMB: But it's in that -- those wharfs right along there?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory & the American Revolution] Reference

Handsome quays and extensive wharfs now line the shores of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Englishwoman in America] Reference

The Song of Belit Hoofs drummed down the street that sloped to the wharfs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan of Cimmeria]

It is a 1,300-pound iron piledriver which was once used to build wharfs and piers.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference

We passed a couple of ships and people on the wharfs on the way, and of course we waved.    From Wordnik.com.  [blu94anjel Diary Entry] Reference

In every respect it would take first place for embarkation, because of its extensive wharfs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operations Upon the Sea A Study] Reference

So much cargo is crammed into these wharfs that the current port can't keep up with the demand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidents Remarks At Port Of New Orleans Dedication] Reference

Turning on his heel, the Cimmerian strode down the rotting wharfs and stepped aboard the galley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan of Cimmeria]

All the steel they produced was sold and the wharfs of Europe were full of steel and other metals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castro Addresses Businessmen at ACS Summit] Reference

In order to accommodate such large sailing vessels, piers and wharfs had to be built at Jamestown.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference

The people who live in the lower town are principally employed on the wharfs, and in the lumber trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Englishwoman in America] Reference

Belit mocked at his superstitions and ordered the galley run inshore and tied to the crumbling wharfs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan of Cimmeria]

Owing to the extreme depth of the water, there is no anchorage, and all craft are moored to the wharfs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

MS. Royal 16 F ii, in the British Museum, showing the Tower, the Bridge, the wharfs, Old St. Paul's, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

The proper plaintiffs include the private individuals whose beaches and wharfs have been blackened by the oil spill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Sense Of Monster Oil Spills] Reference

There are capacious wharfs and roomy warehouses, yet one laments over the absence of everything like trade and business.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Englishwoman in America] Reference

There are wooden houses, wooden churches, wooden wharfs, wooden slates, and, if there are side walks, they are of wood also.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Englishwoman in America] Reference

By nightfall all the troops had been ferried to the wharfs and formed by companies in the railroad yards along the water front.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greater Love] Reference

Warehouses bulked behind wharfs where a medley of craft lay tied and a hodgepodge of persons, human and nonhuman, bustled about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game Of Empire]

There you will meet an agent of mine who will accost you the instant you step upon the wharfs, and give you further instructions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon of Skulls]

The little island and fort of San Juan de Ulúa just opposite the wharfs, the island of Sacrificios a little farther to the left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference

Peter, Emperor of Russia, has taken service on the wharfs of Saardam as simple ship-carpenter under the assumed name of Peter Michaelow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Maigret followed him up, and there, in fact, were the wharfs of Mantes-la-Jolie, the bridge, and a dozen barges moored in the river port.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Bum]

And while you're up there soaring, you might even meet a few happy folk that left their own wharfs long ago to do some flying of their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WELL: Wharf Rat] Reference

The suggestion is made in view of these wharfs, that the Mound Builders must have had some sort of boats to navigate the waters of the lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

I took new interest in the sounds of men living and working, and the sight of a vessel being unloaded at one of the wharfs actually thrilled me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon of Skulls]

We went into camp a mile or so from the historic old Yorktown, if a few old tumbled down houses and a row of wooden wharfs could be called a town.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference

San Francisco should be improved with wharfs, etc., etc., and that titles should be granted to individuals who otherwise would make no durable improvements.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Saw in California] Reference

On the good news side is that the mighty 4th Infantry Division, which is a very powerful mechanized division, is unloading as we talk, at the wharfs in Kuwait.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2003] Reference

About a mile inside the heads, the water deepens; and then commences a succession of cliffs, or natural wharfs, with four, five, and six fathoms at their bases.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 368, May 2, 1829] Reference

If the wharfs and quays on the Thames had been laid out by the English Government, would they have so totally defaced and degraded the banks of that noble river?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference

On our left the shipping lay clustered about the wharfs, sending its tracery of masts into the clear sky; and all around glowed the beauty of a shallow harbor, coral-fringed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference

The three boats proceeded to the entrance of the bar, where the sea was roughest, and numerous spectators collected upon the shore and wharfs followed their evolutions from afar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference