On 2016-02-16 15:46, Volker Schmidt wrote:

> Wharf (US English) and Quay (British English) seem to be equivalent and 
> describe a fixed structure that has land on one side and water on the other, 
> but the French môle or brise-lames is different: it is a structure that 
> protrudes into the water, but is normally narrow and often there is not even 
> a walkway on it.

Look at this plan of Dakar's harbour:
http://www.portdakar.sn/images/stories/design/plangeneral.pdf - "môle"
is most definitely "wharf" and not narrow at all. 
  
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