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A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.
Examples of quays in a Sentence
Quays, where ships drawing 15 ft.
Many of the houses are within tidal limits and furnished with quays and jetties.
The main development of the city has been to the north of the river, which is crossed by numerous bridges and flanked by fine quays and promenades.
S.; its quays can be reached by vessels drawing 20 ft.
Its banks are lined with quays, and ships drawing 26 ft.
The river is bordered by fine quays, and in places by the shady promenades which are a feature of Besancon.
The inner harbour, covering 25 acres, is surrounded by fine quays at which vessels drawing 22 ft.
The navigation of the stream is considerably obstructed by sandbanks, but vessels of 200 tons can unload at the quays, which, with the town and Friarton harbours, lie below the South Inch.
In order to counterbalance their rivalry, the quays have been extended, a canal was opened in 1900 between the Trave and the Elbe, the river up to the wharves has been deepened to 25 ft.
This is protected by Fort William and Fort George, as well as by the citadel (Fort Adelaide), and it has three graving-docks connected with the inner harbour, the depths alongside quays and berths being from 12 to 28 ft.
Its trade is due to its position in the agricultural and horsebreeding district known as the "Campagne de Caen" and to its proximity to the iron mines of the Orne valley, and to manufacturing towns such as Falaise, Le Mans, &c. In the south-east of the town there is a floating basin lined with quays and connected with the Orne and with the canal which debouches into the sea at Ouistreham 9 m.
Dredging has improved the navigable channel of the river, which is tidal to this point and is lined with quays.
The river Main has been dredged so as to afford heavy barge traffic with the towns of the upper Main and with the Rhine, and cargo boats load and unload alongside its busy quays.
Its lower course from Lubeck to the sea has been dredged to a depth of 25 ft., permitting sea-going vessels to lie alongside the wharves and quays.
The railway runs along the quays.
Fire has destroyed several other old buildings in the city, notably in 1891 the house of the Hansa League on the northern quays.
The quays flanking the Scheldt are 32 m.
The whole internal harbour system is furnished with powerful hydraulic cranes and lines of railway running alongside the quays.
On the south side of the river are numerous large docks and wharves, while the city proper on the north side consists of a labyrinth of basins and canals with tree-bordered quays.
Extensive works were begun in 1900 for the purpose of carrying the harbour back 2 m., and a series of large docks were excavated and extensive quays constructed.
The old harbour is semi-circular in shape, 232 acres in area, with numerous quays, and protected by moles from southern and south-westerly winds.
There are eight docks supplied with timber ponds, quays, warehouses and other accommodation.
As superintendent of public buildings he enriched Paris with boulevards, quays and triumphal arches; he relaid the foundation-stone of the Louvre, and brought Bernin from Rome to be its architect; and he erected its splendid colonnade upon the plan of Claude Perrault, by whom Bernin had been replaced.
There are an arsenal and extensive quays.
On Riddarholm also are various government offices, and most of the steamers for Molar and the inland navigation lie alongside its quays.
Huge warehouses and sheds have been erected along the quays for the storage of freight.
Part of the quays and buildings round the port were exposed, after measures had been taken to drain the upper part of the marsh.
The harbour comprises an extensive line of quays, and is connected for inland navigation with Lough Corrib.
Once the capital of West Friesland and a prosperous town, many of its streets and quays are now deserted, though the docks and basins constructed at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries could still afford excellent accommodation for many ships.
Its total area is 27 acres, its quays are nearly b000 ft.
The total dock area of Swansea has thus been increased to about 147 acres with a total length of quays exceeding 3 m.
There are quays, docks and a harbour at the mouth of the Leven, and a pier for river steamers runs out from the Castle rock.
A great impulse to its trade was given in 18 9 8 by the opening of a free harbour adjoining the suburb of Lastadie on the east bank of the Oder; this embraces a total area of i 50 acres and quays with a length of 14,270 ft.
There is no dock for the repair of vessels; but there are two quays at the town.
Both branches of the Lee are lined with fine quays of cut limestone, extending in total length over 4 m.
The harbour is by far the most important on the south coast of Ireland, and dredging operations render the quays approachable for vessels drawing 20 ft.
It possesses a floating dock capable of lifting a vessel of 850o tons, a floating workshop, a patent slip for small craft, hydraulic cranes, &c. The minimum depth alongside the quays at low water is 23 ft., increased at places to over 30 ft.
There are, also, a ruined castle founded by Harun al-Rashid in 782, fine fountains, good buildings, river-side quays, cotton mills and an American mission with church and schools.
Quays and a slip for launching vessels have been constructed.
Beyond the Heeren Gracht lie the Keizers Gracht and the Prinsen Gracht respectively, and these three celebrated canals, with their tree-bordered quays and plain but stately old-fashioned houses, form the principal thoroughfares of the city.
The three islands built out into the river serve to carry the railway across the front of the city, and form a long series of quays.
On either side are the large East and West docks (1825-1834), and beyond these stretch the long quays at which the American and East Indian liners are berthed.
On the west of the West dock is the timber dock, and east of the East dock is another series of islands joined together so as to form basins and quays, one of which is the State Marine dock (1790-1795) with the arsenal and admiralty offices.
The picturesque appearance of the village, with its quays and little harbour, and the grandeur of the cliffs and moorland scenery towards Land's End, make Newlyn an attractive spot.
New quays have been made all the way from the old Immacolatella landing-place to the new and spacious Capitaneria di Porto, on the eastern side of which is a new harbour used mainly for the coal trade, and piers such that the largest liner can lie alongside the jetty.
There are extensive quays, from which is shipped the iron ore from the rich districts traversed by the line.
By the Harbour Act of 1868, the Dee near the harbour was diverted from the south at a cost of L80,000, and 90 acres of new ground (in addition to 25 acres formerly made up) were provided on the north side of the river for the Albert Basin (with a graving dock), quays and warehouses.
It runs parallel to the shore, but the quays properly so called are separated from it by blocks of buildings.
They lie along the course of the Andraki river, whose navigable estuary is still fringed with ruinous quays.
The depth of water at the entrance is about 33 ft., alongside the quays about 20 ft.