What is another word for pier?

Pronunciation: [pˈi͡ə] (IPA)

Pier is a term mostly used to describe a structure that extends over water and used mainly for berthing vessels. A synonym for pier could be jetty, which refers to a low structure projecting from the shore into the water. Another synonym is wharf, a platform built on the shore and used for loading and unloading cargo or passengers. Dock, on the other hand, refers to an enclosed area alongside a waterway where boats can be loaded or unloaded. Quay, marina, and breakwater are other synonyms used to describe a pier. All these words can be used interchangeably depending on the context, but they all refer to a structure built to cater to water traffic.

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Usage examples for Pier

Royalty left the pier.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Then I caught a pulse of music, Brokenly, out at the pier-end, And I heard the voices of girls Going home in the dark, Laughing along the sea-wall Over a lover's word!
"Open Water"
Arthur Stringer
Along the pier to which we drew, the crowd seemed to drag into the water.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Pier

  • At pier four there is a 34-foot yawl-rigged yacht with two of the three hundred and twenty-four Esthonians who are sailing around in different parts of the world, in boats between 28 and 36 feet long and sending back articles to the Esthonian newspapers.No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article.
    Ernest Hemingway
  • Then, on the slight turn of the Lower Hope Reach, clusters of factory chimneys come distinctly into view, tall and slender above the squat ranges of cement works in Grays and Greenhithe. Smoking quietly at the top against the great blaze of a magnificent sunset, they give an industrial character to the scene, speak of work, manufactures, and trade, as palm-groves on the coral strands of distant islands speak of the luxuriant grace, beauty and vigour of tropical nature. The houses of Gravesend crowd upon the shore with an effect of confusion as if they had tumbled down haphazard from the top of the hill at the back. The flatness of the Kentish shore ends there. A fleet of steam-tugs lies at anchor in front of the various piers. A conspicuous church spire, the first seen distinctly coming from the sea, has a thoughtful grace, the serenity of a fine form above the chaotic disorder of men’s houses. But on the other side, on the flat Essex side, a shapeless and desolate red edifice, a vast pile of bricks with many windows and a slate roof more inaccessible than an Alpine slope, towers over the bend in monstrous ugliness, the tallest, heaviest building for miles around, a thing like an hotel, like a mansion of flats (all to let), exiled into these fields out of a street in West Kensington. Just round the corner, as it were, on a pier defined with stone blocks and wooden piles, a white mast, slender like a stalk of straw and crossed by a yard like a knitting-needle, flying the signals of flag and balloon, watches over a set of heavy dock-gates. Mast-heads and funnel-tops of ships peep above the ranges of corrugated iron roofs. This is the entrance to Tilbury Dock, the most recent of all London docks, the nearest to the sea.
    Joseph Conrad
  • In Burma and Paris and London and on the road to Wigan pier, and in Spain, being shot at, and eventually wounded, by fascists — he had invested blood, pain and hard labour to earn his anger, and was as attached to it as any capitalist to his capital. It may be an affliction peculiar to writers more than others, this fear of getting too comfortable, of being bought off.
    George Orwell

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