a structure that is built out into the water so that boats can stop next to it 码头
Examples from the Corpus
wharf• The oilspread to the plaintiff's wharf where welding was taking place.• For a minute or more he lived in the room above the wharf.• It was high tide and on the wharf the swing-bridge was open to allow a toyship to enter the toy-town dry-dock.• The Don Eusebio crunched into the Zamboanga wharf at noon, four hoursbehindschedule.