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What is a pier?

What is a pier? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
  2. A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
  3. (US, nautical) A structure that projects tangentially from the shoreline to accommodate ships; often double-sided.
  4. A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.
  5. (architecture) A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof.
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Most are small, less than three or four feet, but occasionally a pier or jetty angler soaking a big bait hooks a fish with real shoulders.
I had a very strong urge to bean her with a rock, because underneath the pier is littered with big ones, but I resisted.
The yacht lay alongside the pier at a sharp cant, its left side decks awash with water.
He claims the construction of a pier led directly to the formation to the sandbank in a designated safe swimming area.
It was a mixture between big motorboats, small sailing boats and on one pier eight water scooters were standing on a platform.
The pier concrete resists the compressive forces of the structure, and the steel reinforcing resists tensile forces, such as from soil heave.

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