pierhead

Luca Papaluca was a well-known "pierhead" painter in Naples, Italy.

The Seattle Times 2010

Luca Papaluca was a well-known "pierhead" painter in Naples, Italy

The Seattle Times 2010

There used to be bulkhead and pierhead lines on maps, I suppose they come into play.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Preview of the Stop the Beach Renourishment Case 2009

And he remembered the evening in the infirmary in Clongowes, the dark waters, the light at the pierhead and the moan of sorrow from the people when they had heard.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

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.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

Another took the same road, and smashed to atoms almost at the pierhead, so near, and yet so far from human aid, that the voices of both crews could be heard by the helpless, distracted spectators -- white-lipped men, wailing women, who clustered there by the rocks in impotent agony.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

Secretary of the Lifeboat Branch, I at once authorised the step, and a flag was dipped from Deal pierhead, and blue lights were burned; but all in vain.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

Hot cargo waited on the trucks idling behind the metal gates of the pierhead.

Harry Bridges 1934

Those who dropped from exhaustion or heart attack or who were injured or killed on the job could be easily replaced from the pool of hungry men at the pierhead.

Harry Bridges 1934

Again, at the pierhead, white handkerchiefs and cheering and a flutter of coloured dresses.

One Man's Initiation—1917 John Dos Passos 1933