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- noun Plural form of
pier .
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Examples
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Most shark fishing from the ocean fishing piers is done at night.
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Most shark fishing from the ocean fishing piers is done at night.
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Within the city 's draft Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, the recommendation for the piers is now to leave them as an industrial use, as with a set of other districts around the city such as Sunset Park and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
A Sea Change in Waterfront Plans Eliot Brown 2010
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One of the piers is hollow, and a steep and narrow staircase inside it leads up to a small chapel in the roof, with a window giving into the church – said to have been made for the royal family to hear Mass from, though how they managed to climb on a stool and squeeze through that door and up that staircase in those royal robes I do not know.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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*Transforming a vacant lot at the Beach 80th Street Marina in the Rockaways into a public waterfront esplanade, including docks, piers, a kayak launch, and a catering hall.
Along the City's Waterfront, Changes Are Afoot Michael Howard Saul 2011
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Five of the bridge's 13 pilings, also known as piers, are being repaired during the project.
Repairs on D.C.'s 14th Street bridge to continue 14 months, one lane at a time 2010
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Five of the bridge's 13 pilings, also known as piers, are being repaired during the project.
Repairs on D.C.'s 14th Street bridge to continue 14 months, one lane at a time 2010
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Still, these customs and observances (of which All-hallow Eve is only one) may be called the piers, upon which rests a bridge that spans the wide past between us and the generations that have gone before.
Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas Various
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The concrete for the piers was a mixture of 1 part Portland cement to 7 parts gravel; for the arches, the concrete was mixed 1 to 5.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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On the floor on the south side of the nave by one of the piers is a slab to the memory of a maker of gravestones, worded in this quaint fashion:
Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923
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