pierhead
Noun
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Noun
pierhead (plural pierheads)
- The end of a pier farthest from shore. [from 17th c.]
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘My Father's House’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 21:
- It came floating like a tethered cloud past the little white toy-like lighthouse at the pierhead.
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘My Father's House’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 21:
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