wharfward

English

Etymology

From wharf +‎ -ward.

Adverb

wharfward (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) Towards a wharf; in the direction of a wharf.
   • 1872, C. A. Stephens, chapter VII, in On the Amazons; or, The Cruise of "The Rambler." As Recorded by Wash, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, page 104:

     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.

   • 1883 November 10, Frank H. Converse, “The Preston Treasure”, in The Woman's Journal, volume XIV, number 45, Boston, Massachusetts, page 358, column 3:

     Mr. Dorman only laughed, and politely ignoring Polly’s proposition to have Joe Milner, who was hopping in the vegetable garden, accompany him, set forth with his face turned wharfward.

   • 1900, Ethel Turner, chapter XXI, in Three Little Maids, Ward, Lock & Co., page 231:

     But Alfs eyes gazed wharfward till the last flutter of a handkerchief faded, then he gulped very hard and disappeared till dinner-time; […]

   • 1911, William Andrew Mackenzie, “By the Docks”, in Rowton House Rhymes, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 53:

     The smoke-wing'd argosies of Fortune, bearing
     Freightage of marvels, are for ever streaming
     Hither, and wharfward fling with careless seeming
     The rounded fruit of fight and long seafaring.