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A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.

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A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.

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A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided.

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A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.

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A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof, or the hinges of a gate.

She was playing on the pier with a wee brother.

There is an iron pier 450 ft.

There is a fine pier with pavilion, and a marine parade nearly 3 m.

In closed position the main girders rest on a bed plate on the face of the pier 4 ft.

To the south of the esplanade is a pier of stone on wooden piles, and the Alexandra and other public gardens are attractive.

The harbour admits vessels of all sizes and is provided with a pier and slips.

I went back up and dressed and took a walk out on the pier.

He drew up a scheme for the construction of a pier at Madras, to avoid the dangers of landing through the surf, and instructed his brother-in-law in England to obtain estimates from the engineers Brindley and Smeaton.

It was built in 1854 and subsequently enlarged, but a pier was constructed by John Rennie in 1815, and is now chiefly used by fishermen and colliers.

There is also a short pier.

Some suspension bridges have broken down in consequence of the oscillations produced by bodies of men marching in step. In 1850 a suspension bridge cable was carried on a separate saddle on rollers on each pier.

Blyth is also in considerable favour as a wateringplace; there are a pleasant park, a pier, protecting the harbour, about i m.

The Den, or Dene, forms a promenade along the sea-front, with a small lighthouse and a pier.

In 1777 the pier was rebuilt.

In 1383 Bishop Fordham gave the burgesses licence to receive tolls within the borough for the maintenance of the walls, while Bishop Neville granted a commission for the construction of a pier or mole.

His other children - Girolamo, Isabella and Pier Luigi - were of uncertain parentage.

There is daily communication with Scrabster pier (Thurso), via Scapa pier, on the southern side of the waist of Pomona, about 12 m.

The harbour-mouth is obstructed by a bar, and there is a pier for large vessels at Ring, a mile below the town.

There is a*curved pier of ancient foundation known as the Cobb.

There are brine baths supplied from wells near Middlesbrough, a pier, gardens and promenades.

There is a commodious harbour with breakwater and pier.

The original nucleus of the city is that portion which lies to the east of the port in the neighbourhood of the old pier (Molo Vecchio).

This basin is to be entered from both the east and the west, and allows for a future extension in front of San Pier d'Arena as far as the mouth of the river Polcevera.

From the porch we could see the huddled figure of Howie Abbott sitting under a large red umbrella on the edge of the pier.

Concrete in a shell is a name which might be applied to all the methods of founding a pier which depend on the very valuable property which strong hydraulic concrete possesses of setting into a solid mass under water.

In the case of the Empress bridge over the Sutlej each pier consisted of three brick wells, 19 ft.

In the case of the St Louis bridge, half arches were built out on either side of each pier, so that the load balanced.

Let P be the cost of one pier; G the cost of the main girders for one span, erected; n the number of spans; 1 the length of one span, and L the length of the bridge between abutments.

The cost of a pier will not vary materially with the span adopted.

Differentiating and equating to zero, the cost is least when dC _ LP +La =o, dl = l2 P=ale=G; that is, when the cost of one pier is equal to the cost erected of the main girders of one span.

The promenade pier was erected in 1881.

Among other buildings and institutions are a novitiate of Marist Fathers, a science and art school, a pier with pavilion and concert rooms, and a yacht club.

This island was connected with the mainland by Alexander the Great by means of a pier, the remains of which are still visible.

She was close to the eastern pier when a heavy shell burst close to the conning tower, which must have killed the commander for he was never seen again.

They include the extension of the east pier, the construction of a south pier Boo ft.

Owing to a dangerous bar at the mouth of the Magdalena the trade of the extensive territory tributary to that river, which is about 60 ho of that of the entire country, must pass in great part through Barranquilla and its seaport, making it the principal commercial centre of the republic. Savanilla was used as a seaport until about 1890, when shoals caused by drifting sands compelled a removal to Puerto Colombia, a short distance westward, where a steel pier, 4000 ft.

There are several modern churches and chapels, numerous villas, a pier and a lift connecting the town with the esplanade beneath the cliff.

It is a fashionable watering-place on Hobson's Bay, and possesses the longest pier in Australia.

In summer, passenger steamers run to and from Ilfracombe pier; but the shipping trade generally has declined, though herring fisheries are carried on with success.

The height of pier from edge of flooring to spring of arch; was 28.7 ft., the spring of the arch being about the surface-level of maximum flood.

It having been found that considerable hollow spaces existed below the foundations of some of the piers, five bore-holes from the top of the roadway were pierced vertically through each pier of both barrages, and similar holes were drilled at intervals along all the lock walls.

There is a pier 2000 ft.

The town possesses a pier and promenade, a theatre, assembly rooms, and numerous convalescent homes, including an establishment belonging to the Merchant Taylors' Company.

Kinsale, with the neighbouring villages of Scilly and Cove, is much frequented by summer visitors, and is the headquarters of the South of Ireland Fishing Company, with a fishery pier and a commodious harbour with 6 to 8 fathoms of water; but the general trade is of little importance owing to the proximity of Queenstown and Cork.

A fine promenade extends along the shore; there are a quay and a pier, a winter garden, and all the appointments of a seaside resort.

The principal buildings are the parish church, well-placed on a hill overlooking the pier, convalescent homes, Cottage and Victoria fever hospitals, and the town house.

On a conical hill above the pier stand the remains of Dunoon Castle, the hereditary keepership of which was conferred by Robert Bruce on the family of Sir Colin Campbell of Loch Awe, an ancestor of the duke of Argyll.

Facing the pier a statue was erected in 1898 of Mary Campbell, Burns's "Highland Mary," who was a native of Dunoon.

Hunter's Quay is the yachting headquarters, the Royal Clyde Yacht Club's house adjoining the pier.

It is generally attached to the first eastern pier or column and rises to the level of the springing of the vault.