[f. WHARF sb.1 + -ING1.]
† 1. = WHARFAGE 1, 2. Obs. rare.
1466–7. Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.), 392. Item, fore warffenge at the keye, ob.
2. A structure in the form of a wharf; materials of which a wharf is constructed; the facing of sea-walls, etc., by planks secured by ties.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., p. lxxviii. To go into the Thames … will cost a Man 300 l. with the slighter sort of Wharfing.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Sylva, I. ii. (1776), 49. A … strong stone-wall, which was a kind of wharfing against a river running by it.
1724. De Foe, Tour Gt. Brit., I. III. 87. The Mill Tayl, or Floor for the Water below the Wheels is Wharft up on either Side with Stone,… at the End of this Wharfing is a Grating of Wood.
1791. R. Mylne, 2nd Rep. Thames, 7. An old Wharfing, bent over into the Stream, which formerly supported a Parish Road along the Shore.
1809. Naval Chron., XXIII. 81. The destruction of the wharfing of the basin.
1897. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., Dec., 612. Wharfing along the sides with short posts and rough boards.
