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A wharf ( worf) (pl. wharves or wharfs), quay ( kee, also k(w)ay), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. Such a structure includes one or more berths (mooring locations), and may also include piers, warehouses, or other facilities necessary for handling the ships. Wharves are often considered to be a series of docks at which boats are stationed. A marginal wharf is connected to the shore along its full length. Overview A wharf commonly comprises a fixed platform, often on pilings. Commercial ports may have warehouses that serve as interim storage: where it is sufficient a single wharf with a single berth constructed along the land adjacent to the water is normally used; where there is a need for more capacity multiple wharves, or perhaps a single large wharf with multiple berths, will instead be constructed, sometimes projecting over the water. A pier, raised over the water rather than within it, is commonly used for cases where the weight or volume of cargos will be low. Smaller and more modern wharves are sometimes built on flotation devices (pontoons) to keep them at the same level as the ship, even during changing tides. In everyday parlance the term quay is common in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and many other Commonwealth countries, and the Republic of Ireland, whereas the term wharf is more common in the United States. In some contexts wharf and quay may be used to mean pier, berth, or jetty.In old ports such as London (which once had around 1700 wharves) many old wharves have been converted to residential or office use. Certain early railways in England referred to goods loading points as "wharves". The term was carried over from marine usage. The person who was resident in charge of the wharf was referred to as a "wharfinger". Etymology Wharf The word wharf comes from the Old English hwearf, cognate to the Old Dutch word werf, which both evolved to mean "yard", an outdoor place where work is done, like a shipyard (Dutch: scheepswerf) or a lumberyard (Dutch: houtwerf). Originally, werf or werva in Old Dutch (werf, wer in Old Frisian) simply referred to inhabited ground that was not yet built on (similar to "yard" in modern English), or alternatively to a terp. This could explain the name Ministry Wharf located at Saunderton, just outside High Wycombe, which is nowhere near any body of water. In support of this explanation is the fact that many places in England with "wharf" in their names are in areas with a high Dutch influence, for example the Norfolk broads. Staith In the northeast and east of England the term staith or staithe (from the Norse for landing stage) is also used. The two terms have historically had a geographical distinction: those to the north in the Kingdom of Northumbria used the Old English spelling staith, southern sites of the Danelaw took the Danish spelling staithe. Both originally referred to jetties or wharves. In time, the northern coalfields of Northumbria developed coal staiths specifically for loading coal onto ships and these would adopt the staith spelling as a distinction from simple wharves: for example, Dunston Staiths in Gateshead and Brancaster Staithe in Norfolk. However, the term staith may also be used to refer only to loading chutes or ramps used for bulk commodities like coal in loading ships and barges. Quay Quay, on the other hand, has its origin in the Proto-Celtic language. Before it changed to its current form under influence of the modern French quai, its Middle English spelling was key, keye or caye. This in turn also came from the Old Norman cai (Old French / French chai "wine cellar"), meaning originally "earth bank near a river", then "bank built at a port to allow ship docking". The French term quai comes, through Picard or Norman-French, from Gaulish caio, ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Celtic *kagio- "to encompass, enclose". Modern cognates include Welsh cae "fence, hedge" and Cornish ke "hedge", Gallery See also Bollard Canal basin Dock (maritime) Port Safeguarded wharfReferences External links The dictionary definition of wharf at Wiktionary The dictionary definition of quay at Wiktionary. Discover the Quay popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Quay books.

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  • Faith, Life and Leadership synopsis, comments

    Faith, Life and Leadership

    Georgialee Lang BA JD FCIArb

    Here are 8 prominent women in leadership in Canada who are led by God’s Spirit, who have come forward to serve as mentors and models for others. As successful, godly Canadian women...

  • Quay Hotel synopsis, comments

    Quay Hotel

    Paul Kater

    A man somehow gets lost in his own town after dropping off his girl at the airport. He has to spend the night at Quay Hotel. It's a night he'll never forget...

  • Prince of Persia synopsis, comments

    Prince of Persia

    Jack A. Taylor

    Winner of the “Word Guild Best New Manuscript Award 2021.” Join the exciting and perilous adventures of Nabonidus, the emperor’s champion gladiator, who finds Messiah Yeshua then r...

  • The Shepherd and His Staff synopsis, comments

    The Shepherd and His Staff

    Theodore Mistra

    This book is about leadership. In The Shepherd and His Staff Theodore Mistra illustrates what the Bible reveals about the key principles and practices to becoming a shepherd leade...

  • Leading Me synopsis, comments

    Leading Me

    Dr Steve A Brown & Dr Marina H Hofman-Willard PhD

    You are your most important and most difficult leadership assignment. Leading Me will help you get traction on living a Christcentered, holistic, sustainable and fruitful life of ...

  • Women in the Bible Small Group Bible Study synopsis, comments

    Women in the Bible Small Group Bible Study

    Dr Marina H Hofman PhD

    Includes downloadable FREE VIDEO SERIES WWW.WOMENINTHEBIBLE.INFO In this 8week study explore how women in the Bible played a predominate role in the success of several main Bi...

  • The Quay synopsis, comments

    The Quay

    Lewis Wade

    A rather bitter, aged man meets an adventurous, confident young boy on his morning constitution. A transformation takes place which begs as many questions as it answers. 1,500 w...

  • The Diary of a Nobody synopsis, comments

    The Diary of a Nobody

    George and Weedon Grossmith

    One of the funniest classics that is still super relevant today. Mr Pooter is a man of modesty, content with his simple life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tr...

  • An Autobiography of Joseph Conrad synopsis, comments

    An Autobiography of Joseph Conrad

    Stephen Brennan

    Heart of Darkness author Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857) was a Polish writer who learned to read, write, and speak English after he was granted Britis...

  • Along the Quay synopsis, comments

    Along the Quay

    Robert Reynolds

    Along the Quay presents five different stories that take place in Vietnam during the war era.  An Incident At the OK Hotel; The China Beach Surfer; A Matter of Finances; Showe...

  • Good News Church synopsis, comments

    Good News Church

    Dr John P Bowen ThD & Dr Michael P Knowles PhD

    This collection of 18 essays explore the lessons and impact of Harold’s ministry on subjects such as leadership, discipleship, evangelism, worship, preaching, prayer, mentoring, co...

  • Because the Spirit was There synopsis, comments

    Because the Spirit was There

    Belma Diana Vardy

    “Many unique & distinct life stories across our nation captured by Belma Vardy.  These individual’s stories deliver hope, healing and freedom to our First Nation people. &...

  • Lament for Spilt Porter synopsis, comments

    Lament for Spilt Porter

    Larry J McCloskey

    During the past thirty years, Larry McCloskey has become an accomplished writer, while his day job/vocation has been working with students with disabilities. He wrote Lament for Sp...

  • Wood Quay synopsis, comments

    Wood Quay

    Thomas F. Heffernan

    An urban archaeologist working anywhere in the world can imagine this scenario: armed with a small digging tool and a soft brush, the archaeologist stands at a freshly cut trench f...

  • A Good Heart is Hard to Find synopsis, comments

    A Good Heart is Hard to Find

    Trisha Ashley

    'Trisha Ashley writes with remarkable wit and originality one of the best writers around' KATIE FFORDE, author of A Springtime AffairIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a ...

  • The Honour Drum synopsis, comments

    The Honour Drum

    Cheryl Bear-Barnetson & Tim Huff

    The Honour Drum is a uniquely envisioned and crafted project shared between two Canadian friendsan Indigenous woman from the West Coast and a nonIndigenous man from Ontarioto reach...

  • Along the Quay synopsis, comments

    Along the Quay

    Robert Reynolds

    ALONG THE QUAY presents five unique stories (fiction) that take place during the Vietnam War. A host of colorful characters, military and civilian, bring these stories to life alo...

  • Saint-Quay-Portrieux synopsis, comments

    Saint-Quay-Portrieux

    André Legrand

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

  • One Smooth Stone synopsis, comments

    One Smooth Stone

    Marcia Lee Laycock

    The winner of the 2006 Best New Canadian Christian Author Award. No matter how far you run, God will find you. No matter how bad you’ve been, God will forgive you. Alex Donnelly is...

  • A Life Worth Living synopsis, comments

    A Life Worth Living

    Cal R Bombay

    Cal Bombay has certainly experienced "a life worth living!”Rev. David Wells, General Superintendent, The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.Combining tales of dangerous misadventures...

  • Le Secret de Saint-Quay synopsis, comments

    Le Secret de Saint-Quay

    Anne-Solen Kerbrat

    Un notable de SaintQuayPortrieux chute dans les escaliers... Accident ?SaintQuayPortrieux, ses plages, ses villas cossues, son chemin de ronde… Un cadre de vie idyllique dans leque...

  • The True Story of Canadian Human Trafficking synopsis, comments

    The True Story of Canadian Human Trafficking

    Paul H Boge

    This is the true story of the world of human trafficking in Canada. For years many people refused to believe that human trafficking was happening here in innocent, safe Canada to o...

  • The Opera House synopsis, comments

    The Opera House

    Peter FitzSimons

    'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' Louis Kahn, US architect If only these walls and this land could talk ... The Sydney ...

  • Balls synopsis, comments

    Balls

    Ken Sanz & Scott M. Deitche

    The true story of the man who scammed the mob and informed the FBI for over two decades.Eddie Trascher had balls. Born in the bayou of Louisiana, Eddie learned about gambling at th...

  • Quay Hurd v. Ford Motor Company synopsis, comments

    Quay Hurd v. Ford Motor Company

    Supreme Court of Michigan

    The issue to be decided in this case is whether MCL 418.301(2); MSA 17.237(301)(2) 1 of 1980 PA 357 will have prospective or retroactive effect. 2 This Court holds that MCL 418.301...

  • The Quay Way synopsis, comments

    The Quay Way

    Emmy Ayarza

    The Quay Way is a science fiction story of starcrossed family reunited in another world as they are forced from Earth. This story revolves around Ani and Myles Dace and their famil...

  • Ambassadors of Christ synopsis, comments

    Ambassadors of Christ

    Phil, M Wagler

    “Without reconciliation we will not have any meaningful social life in this world." These words of Johannes Reimer, World Evangelical Alliance Director of Public Engagement point u...

  • The Essentials synopsis, comments

    The Essentials

    Dr David Sherbino

    In our culture there is a great deal of speculation and a variety of opinions concerning the Christian faith and what it teaches. ‘The Essentials’ seeks to dispel the confusion and...

  • Live Your Assignment synopsis, comments

    Live Your Assignment

    Phil, M Wagler

    A Christian is sent out as an ambassador of Christ. But where? And for what purpose? Live Your Assignment: Being Christ's Ambassador in 7 Spheres of Life unpacks God's highest...

  • The Quay Avenue Bridge synopsis, comments

    The Quay Avenue Bridge

    Phillip Garcia

    DO NOT CROSS THE BRIDGE. The stories are real. It has been years since his accidental death, but the body of Denny Dennison will not leave, terrifying unsuspecting travelers and ha...

  • The Cardboard Shack Beneath The Bridge synopsis, comments

    The Cardboard Shack Beneath The Bridge

    Tim J Huff

    This book captures all that Tim has seen in his years working on the street with the homeless in a form children can easily understand. Homelessness has been called one of the grea...

  • The Fully Lived Life synopsis, comments

    The Fully Lived Life

    Dr. Merry C. Lin & Dr Marina Hofman Willard PhD

    Do you feel yourself sleepwalking through life? Are you soul weary? Do you long to fully live? So how does one break free from soul depression? Respected psychologist Dr. Lin beli...

  • In Re Marriage Of Quay synopsis, comments

    In Re Marriage Of Quay

    Sixth Appellate District District Court of Appeal of California

    We consider together two appeals filed by Dr. Steven C. Quay (Steven) in this  vigorously litigated marital dissolution case. The first appeal is from a further judgment on ce...

  • The Complete Leader synopsis, comments

    The Complete Leader

    Robert Shaw

    The Complete Leader: Handbook of Essentials for Human Services Leadership gives leaders within human services organizations with lay or professional leadership responsibilities, ov...

  • Board County Comrs Quay County v. Wasson synopsis, comments

    Board County Comrs Quay County v. Wasson

    Court of Appeals of New York

    Proceedings by the Board of County Commissioners of Quay County to condemn a right of way for road purposes across lands belonging to J. R. Wasson. From an order vacating a final j...

  • Father to the Fatherless synopsis, comments

    Father to the Fatherless

    Paul H Boge

    Sixyearold Charles Mulli wakes up in his Kenyan hut to discover his parents have abandoned him. Forced to beg from hut to hut in search of food, Charles scrapes out a meagre existe...

  • 101 Wonders of the Waterways synopsis, comments

    101 Wonders of the Waterways

    Moira Haynes & Steve Haywood

    A charming and characterful guidebook to the best of Britain's diverse and fascinating canal network for all waterway enthusiasts. Beautifully illustrated, this compendium unc...

  • Among the Lesser Gods synopsis, comments

    Among the Lesser Gods

    Margo Catts

    For fans of authors like Barbara Kingsolver and Leif Enger, a stunning new voice in contemporary literary fiction."Tragedy and blessing. Leave them alone long enough, and it gets r...