Seafood Restarants that want to sound fancy use the word Quay in there names...as in "Quay 54"
-- In [email protected], Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "trainfinder22" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We dont have anything that big out here on the canal... > > Piers refer to long narrow docks that extend out to the water on the > >great lakes...We never use the word Wharf on Fresh Water.. > > > > We have Marinas and Boat centers and we have ports... > > Oddly even places that are a hundred miles inland have port in there > >name like Willamsport PA > > The OED says a wharf is where a ship can moor to load and unload. The > word "ship" comes from the Dutch "schip" AIUI ("skipper", meaning the > person in charge of, er, a ship, comes from the same root). My barge > is Dutch, and such vessels are definitely called "schips" by the > Dutch. So, I think a wharf is somewhere a barge can moor for loading. > > OTH "dock" is an enclosed are of water of a port for loading etc. > > A pier is not a dock. It is a fixed structure extending from the > shore into the water (OED says "sea" specifically, but I have often > heard the term applied to such structures in fresh water)), often for > the mooring of vessels. There is a famous one in England - Wigan Pier > (on the Leeds & Liverpool canal), although it wasn't much of a pier. > > In Canada, piers on the sea and major lakes which are built and > maintained by the federal government are to as "wharves" by the feds. > The manager of such a wharf still carries the correct, but too > seldom-used nowadays, title of "wharfinger". > > Mike mentioned Cambrian Wharf in Birmingham. Also in Brum there are > several facilities known for hundreds of years as ports, e.g. Hockley > Port. > > Of course, you have Lockport, definitely a canal place. > > I dislike the use of "marina" to describe an inland facility, as to me > the word is derived from "marine", meaning "of the sea". I prefer the > inland version to be called a port. > > I think "quay" was never used for a waterway facillity. In Britain, > it seems to have appeared only to refer to sanitised docks, e.g. > "Surrey Quays" for the infilled, shallowed, built over, and generally > sadly ruined Surrey Docks. > > Adrian > > > > Adrian Stott > 07956-299966 >
