Pierhead

Quick meaning: Pierhead is a noun meaning The end of a pier farthest from shore.

Meaning

The end of a pier farthest from shore.

Example Sentences

It came floating like a tethered cloud past the little white toy-like lighthouse at the pierhead.

Here on Papay folk will speak slowly and sympathetically in a one-to-one conversation with a 'soothmoother', but if you're on the fringes of a pierhead debate about the price of cattle or the weather, then you'll soon be submerged beneath a fast-flowing terminological tidal wave.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stemhead, beakhead, headland, nearshore, sea-brink, littoral.

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