pierhead
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Origin of pierhead
Example Sentences
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The wings were unfolded and passengers jammed the Homeric's rails to watch Sir Alan and Lady Cobham of England skim off to circle Manhattan and dip to a reception committee waiting on an upriver pierhead.
From Time Magazine Archive
By land British troops ringed the colony; at sea patrol boats of the Royal Navy stopped food ships, often in sight of pierhead watchers at Djibouti.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hab bellowed, “or we’ll be making a pierhead jump!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
It made a frightful noise, but did little execution, occasioned, as was supposed, by the pierhead lying too low.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The Vandalia was warping out from the pierhead with a sobbing tug at her stern.
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter
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