What is "pierhead"

Usage examples of "pierhead".

Towards the pierhead, where anglers foregather when the tide is in, he finds a well-sheltered bench overlooking the sea, and sits down.

The Jews dumped a load of their 6,000 years of superstition, minor chords and mystery as they made their way down from Lime Street Station to Pierhead to catch those late nineteenth century Atlantic-crossing steamers.

A hundred Santander Marines and armed sailors guarded the pierhead with fixed bayonets.

Diving from the pierhead in a clean splash, The Shadow, too, took to the water.

When Thompson inquired about southbound passage, he was told to go down and board the first steamer at the pierhead, and that it would leave at eleven that night.

Sainsbury said, while he was thinking that this might turn out a happy berth, pierhead jump and all.

Before we could raise our eyes from that engaging spectacle the schooner had slipped betwixt the pierheads of the reef, and was already quite committed to the sea within.

A tall man stood on the deck, looking out towards the flat dark land: and by the light at the pierhead he saw his face, the sorrowful face of Brother Michael.