pier-head

In his last days Johnny got nothing but pier-head jumps.

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Down here they call such escapes, 'pier-head jumps.'

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You see, the recruiter has the advantage over a boy when he makes a pier-head jump.

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C.P.R.M. Some years ago, when the vessels engaged in the Greenland whale-fishery left Whitby, in Yorkshire, I observed the wives and friends of the sailors to throw old shoes at the ships as they passed the pier-head.

Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 Various

We went ashore; and although, on our arrival at the pier-head, the sentinels and police did not speak to us, or demand our passports, they walked round and viewed us, as a man would observe the points of a horse before he purchased it.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

The first ten of these who get into the lifeboat when the rocket signal goes up from the pier-head form on that occasion the crew of the lifeboat.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

With him rested the decision to send up the answering rocket from the pier-head, upon seeing which the police and coastguard called the lifeboat crew.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

'She's rare and sweet, is Miss Theedory,' murmured the weather-beaten old man, when the sisters had disappeared, and he turned to fasten the boat to the pier-head.

The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell

I had the privilege of standing on Ramsgate pier-head on November 11,

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

Iris dropped within thirty yards of the pier-head at Erith.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross