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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
landing stage
noun
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▪ A short stroll leads to Menaggio's ferry landing stage.
▪ Around £300,000 a year has been spent patching up its ageing landing stage.
▪ Burkett's daughter would saddle up a horse and ride down the east shore of Derwent Water to the Lodore landing stage.
▪ He built the Stone Quay both as a landing stage and promenade.
▪ It took half an hour before she came across it, moored by a small wooden landing stage.
▪ Sir Gregory, Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting.
▪ The hotel is set in a quiet back street with its own landing stage and a tiny pavement terrace.
▪ The new station is inconvenient to pedestrians, being a considerable walk from the ferries' landing stage.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Landing stage

Landing \Land"ing\, a. Of, pertaining to, or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.

Landing charges, charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel.

Landing net, a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked.

Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.

Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter.

Wiktionary
landing stage

n. A floating platform attached at one end to a wharf so as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.

WordNet
landing stage

n. platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded