column vs wharf

column

noun
  • A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road. 

  • Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column. 

  • A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme. 

  • The gynostemium 

  • A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom. 

  • An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds. 

  • A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page. 

  • A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration. 

  • A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text. 

wharf

noun
  • A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank. 

  • The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea. 

verb
  • To place on a wharf. 

  • To secure by a wharf. 

How often have the words column and wharf occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )