wharf : Idioms & Phrases
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Wharf boat
- a kind of boat moored at the bank of a river, and used for a wharf, in places where the height of the water is so variable that a fixed wharf would be useless. U. S. Bartlett.
Webster 1913
Wharf rat
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noun someone who lives near wharves and lives by pilfering from ships or warehouses
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noun brown rat that infests wharves
WordNet
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(Zoöl.) (a) The common brown rat.(b) A neglected boy who lives around the wharfs. Slang
