Whats the difference between a warf and a pier?
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:20 am
In the USA English vocabulary? Just wondering....
This aint wikipedia?? JK is a warf a DOCK?/Pier?The Puffer Forum
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Re: Whats the difference between a warf and a pier?
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:28 am
This aint wikipedia?? JK is a warf a DOCK?/Pier?Re: Whats the difference between a warf and a pier?
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:36 am
I think it a reginal thing. A dock to me is on a lake or river and a pier is out into the ocean. And I call nothing a warf
Re: Whats the difference between a warf and a pier?
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:59 am
I ask because I cant seem to find a definitive answer from google. I have been raised boating, and from what I have been taught is that a dock floats, moving with the tide/water level. A pier is fixed, and still is a pier despite what ever body of water it is it, either sea/ocean/lake etc, a wharf is a district of docks attached to piers.
Either way, can anyone clear this up, sorry if I overlooked the wikipedia on this, but I didnt see it.
Either way, can anyone clear this up, sorry if I overlooked the wikipedia on this, but I didnt see it.
Re: Whats the difference between a warf and a pier?
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:15 am
No I was jus teasin I tried looking it up too....
Re: Whats the difference between a warf and a pier?
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:50 am
Shouldn't that be "wharf"?
Re: Whats the difference between a warf and a pier?
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:29 am
the spelling may be what is catching you all up. I believe it is wharf you were looking for, and why you didn't find it in wikepedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharf