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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
WHARF, n. A perpendicular bank or mound or timber or stone and earth, raised on the shore of a harbor, or extending some distance into the water, for the convenience of lading and unlading ships and other vessels. This name is also given to the wider part of a canal, where boats lie while loading and unloading. The two longest wharfs in New England are at Boston and at New Haven. The latter is much the longest, extending into the harbor about three quarter of a mile.
WHARF, v.t. To guard or secure by a wharf or firm wall of timber or stone; as, the western bank of the Connecticut is wharfed at Hartford, to prevent the river from wearing away the land.
1913 Definition
A structure or platform of timber, masonry,
iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river,
canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so
that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo,
passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.
Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea. Bancroft. Out upon the wharfs they came, * The plural of this word is generally written wharves in the United States, and wharfs in England; but many recent English writers use wharves. The bank of a river, or the
shore of the sea.
[Obs.] "The fat weed that roots itself in ease on
Lethe wharf." Shak.
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.
-- Wharf rat. (Zoöl.) To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or
stone constructed like a wharf] to furnish with a wharf or
wharfs.
To place upon a wharf; to bring to a
wharf.
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Noah Says...
When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.
History of the United States :: 1832
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