wharfing

Updated: May 24, 2025

The case is this: On the south side of the river, and on a slip, or narrow cut or channel made on purpose for a mill, there stands a corn-mill; the mill-tail, or floor for the water below the wheels, is wharfed up on either side with stone above high-water mark, and for above twenty or thirty feet in length below it on that part of the river towards the sea; at the end of this wharfing is a grating of wood, the cross-bars of which stand bearing inward, sharp at the end, and pointing inward towards one another, as the wires of a mouse-trap.

Daniel Defoe - From London to Land's End : and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"

Then, ghostly faint, as an echo from very far away, a triple blowing responded... And a long purple mass loomed and swelled into sight, heightened, approached land and trees black-shadowing, and lights that swung ... The San Marco glided into a bayou, under a high wharfing of timbers, where a bearded fisherman waited, and a woman. Sparicio flung up a rope.

Lafcadio Hearn - Chita: a Memory of Last Island