1) Anchor-dropping place 2) Anchorage area 3) Anchorage locale 4) Angeli in Merry Andrew 5) Angling area 6) Architectural element 7) Architectural support 8) Atlantic Beach attraction 9) Atlantic City structure 10) Beach walkway 11) Berth place 12) Boardwalk abutter 13) Boardwalk adjunct 14) Boardwalk attachment
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1) Anta 2) Dock 3) Jetty 4) Pilaster 5) Quay 6) Wharf
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• (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress. • (n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings. • (n.) A projecting wharf or landing place.
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A loading platform extending at an angle from the shore.
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(from the article `harbours and sea works`) Reinforced-concrete piled piers and jetties, soundly constructed, exhibit great durability. Attachment to the piles for bracing and similar purposes ... Because quay walls occupy valuable waterfront space, docking cost at a quay wall is high. A more economical expedient is the pier, which in i...
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A structure extending from the shore out into the water to allow vessels to dock.
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A square pillar or the part of a wall that sits between doors or windows.
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A man made structure extending from the shore against which vessels may lie to load or unload cargo.
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A column of masonry, usually rectangular in horizontal cross section, used to support other structural members.
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A column or post supporting a superstructure such as floor bearers, beams, etc., or an internal support for a bridge
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A loading platform extending at an angle from the shore.
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1. A column designed to support concentrated load. 2. A member, usually in the form of a thickened section, which forms an integral part of a wall; usually placed at intervals along the wall to provide lateral support or to take concentrated vertical loads. 3. A vertical supporting member or element (usually of brick, stone, or metal) placed at int...
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A loading platform extending at an angle from the shore
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Pier noun [ Middle English
pere , Old French
piere a stone, French
pierre , from Latin
petra , Greek .... Confer
Petrify .]
1. (Architecture) (a) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as o...
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- A column of masonry, usually rectangular in horizontal cross section, used to support other structural members. Also see Caisson.
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A short masonry or concrete column supporting the foundations of the floor structure in spaces without a basement. Pier may be freestanding or bonded at its sides to other masonry or concrete. A masonry column used to support a garden wall. A freestanding column
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A loading platform extending at an angle from the shore.
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A loading platform extending at an angle from the shore.
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A moulded stone at the top of a pilaster flanking an opening. The member of a pillar or pier from which the arch springs. A discontinuous impost is where the arch mouldings simply die out in the splayed jambs.
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A column of masonry, usually rectangular in horizontal cross section, used to support other structural members. (Also see Caisson)
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A mass of stonework or brickwork, usually of square section, which serves as a support instead of a column.
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wharf noun a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
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A masonry support between openings such as arcades. Typically slender, the pier has a rectangular, polygonal, or round cross-section, but does not taper and often has no capital (fig.6). The pier may also have a base as well as an impost. A compound pier is a pier with two or more members or support elements.
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A column of masonry, usually rectangular in horizontal cross section, used to support other structur
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A column of masonry, usually rectangular in horizontal cross section, used to support other structural members. Also see Caisson.
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