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  • WHALE
    A royal fish, the head being the king's property, and the tail the queen's. 2 Steph. Comm. 19, 448, 540.
  • WHALER
    A vessel employed in the whale fishery.
  • WHARF
    A perpendicular bank or mound of timber, or stone and earth, raised on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, etc., or extending some distance into the water, for the convenience of lading and unlading ships and other vessels. Webster. A broad, plain place near a river, canal, or other More...
  • WHARFAGE
    Money paid for landing wares at a wharf, or for shipping or taking goods into a boat or barge from thence. Cowell. Strictly speaking "wharfage" is money due, or money actually paid, for the privilege of landing goods upon, or loading a vessel while moored from, a wharf. 1 Brown, More...
  • WHARFINGER
    One who owns or keeps a wharf for the purpose of receiving and shipping merchandise to or from it for hire.
  • WHEEL
    An engine of torture used in medieval Europe, on which a criminal was bound while his limbs were broken one by one till he died.
  • WHEELAGE
    Duty or toll paid for carts, etc, passing over certain ground. Cowell.
  • WHEN AND WHERE
    Technical words In pleading, formerly necessary in making full defense to certain actions.
  • WHENEVER
    This word, though often used as equivalent to "as soon as," is also often used where the time intended by it is, and will be until its arrival, or for some uncertain period, at least, Indeterminate. Robinson v. Greene, 14 R. 1.188.
  • WHEREAS
    A word which implies a recital of a past fact. The word "whereas," when it renders the deed senseless or repugnant may be struck out as impertinent and shall not vitiate a deed in other respects sensible.
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