Synonym: breakwater, dock, wharf. Similar words: pierce, piercing, photocopier, robespierre, pie, pied, piece, piety. Meaning: [pɪr /pɪə] n. 1. a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats 2. (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows) 3. a support for two adjacent bridge spans.
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31. Bedford had tried to maintain that inner confidence that had illumined his mind on the Fulton Street pier.
32. Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier, the rucksack being roped afterwards.
33. From Brighton Station to the Palace Pier it is designed to be enjoyed both by casual visitors and dedicated enthusiasts.
34. There is a pier, a busy soft sand beach and some beautiful public gardens.
35. He also managed personal accounts for certain senior executives of Pier 1, PairGain and other companies.
36. We were sitting on the end of the pier, legs dangling over the water.
37. Dabs and flounder from the stem of Southend Pier, with undersized whiting a nuisance from the extension.
38. The union meeting at the Pier Head in Liverpool was in uproar.
39. For more than a few summers, this old pier was something to see on a Sunday afternoon.
40. He said he had managed to swim under the pier and had found a ledge.
41. Experts consider his finest achievement to be the West Pier, with its elegant cast-iron kiosks, railings, and windscreens.
42. Conduit cars 2 and 6 posing with their crews, local boys and a landau near North Pier.
43. The water level is so high, it is dangerous and boats are dashed against the pier or the arches.
44. The pier will bring more tourists, who will browse the boutiques and souvenir stores before boarding their ship at night.
45. From here, up in the windy pier gardens, you could look down and watch the trippers.
46. The tarmac glistened wet and the trees in the pier gardens dripped.
47. Stretch of beach between Fishbourne and Ryde Pier offered good flounder at night with odd dabs at Seaview.
48. By late afternoon we'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier.
49. He sat on the low wall surrounding the pier gardens.
50. The tenants were drawn up in rows on the pier.
51. A third stop, this time at Elwood Pier,[sentencedict.com/pier.html] would produce a victor in overtime.
52. He said nothing as he found her standing on the pier, but accepted her silent invitation to walk.
53. Just over two hours later I nosed into the pier at Vidlin and Martin and Lucy jumped on board.
54. The sky was turning rosy and the lights on the pier were coming on, one by one.
55. The last time I went down there, the uncovered pier was still hanging over the slate-gray water.
56. As they came closer, Harry made out a railway line snaking through farms to a long pier.
57. Two officers on a police patrol launch stationed just across the river at Westminster Pier saved the youngster's life.
58. Several hundred people had waited at Pier 41 to see the celebrities off.
59. The motoscafo, full of lights and people, went blindly on and nosed in at the wooden pier across the canal.
60. Her own cards sent in reply, picturing the pier or the downs behind the town, were of monumental insignificance.