pierhead
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Origin of pierhead
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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
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
Hab bellowed, “or we’ll be making a pierhead jump!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Presently two men came along to the pierhead.
From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts
But Hardenberg knew that once the "loot" was safely landed at the Hongkong pierhead the Three Crows would share between them close upon ten thousand dollars.
From A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris
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