"wharfward" meaning in English

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Adverb

Etymology: From wharf + -ward. Etymology templates: {{af|en|wharf|-ward}} wharf + -ward Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} wharfward (not comparable)
  1. (uncommon) Towards a wharf; in the direction of a wharf. Tags: not-comparable, uncommon
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          "text": "Manoel and Wolo, accompanied by Palo and two others, came running up from the quarters, and rushed into the hall. It needed but a nod from me to have them take each a rifle, and fall into line on the veranda, before the door, where Kit was pacing back and forth, peering anxiously into the gloom to wharfward.",
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          "ref": "1883 November 10, Frank H. Converse, “The Preston Treasure”, in The Woman's Journal, volume XIV, number 45, Boston, Massachusetts, page 358, column 3:",
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          "ref": "1900, Ethel Turner, chapter XXI, in Three Little Maids, Ward, Lock & Co., page 231:",
          "text": "But Alfs eyes gazed wharfward till the last flutter of a handkerchief faded, then he gulped very hard and disappeared till dinner-time; […]",
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          "ref": "1911, William Andrew Mackenzie, “By the Docks”, in Rowton House Rhymes, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 53:",
          "text": "The smoke-wing'd argosies of Fortune, bearing\nFreightage of marvels, are for ever streaming\nHither, and wharfward fling with careless seeming\nThe rounded fruit of fight and long seafaring.",
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