staith

So starboard your helm and find the nearest port to put in and come alongside the staith so you can raise a tankard or two.

September 2005 2005

Now here, upon a very sad November afternoon, when the Northern day was narrowing in; and the Ouse, which is usually of a ginger-color, was nearly as dark as a nutmeg; and the bridge, and the staith, and the houses, and the people, resembled one another in tint and tone; while between the Minster and the Clifford Tower there was not much difference of outline — here and now Master

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

A tackle hooked to one of the baulks of timber forming the staith was being hauled at by five women and two men!

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

He certainly adopted it early, and thereby met the fate of men before their age; for his plan was opposed by the labouring people of the colliery, who got up a riot in which they tore up the road and burnt the coal-staith, whilst Mr. Curr fled into a neighbouring wood for concealment, and lay there _perdu_ for three days and nights, to escape the fury of the populace.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

Now here, upon a very sad November afternoon, when the Northern day was narrowing in; and the Ouse, which is usually of a ginger-color, was nearly as dark as a nutmeg; and the bridge, and the staith, and the houses, and the people, resembled one another in tint and tone; while between the Minster and the Clifford Tower there was not much difference of outline -- here and now Master Geoffrey Mordacks was sitting in the little room where strangers were received.

Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale 1862

"The tide'll be on the flow by that time," Jimmy observed, "and we'll get off from the staith breakwater.

The Zeppelin's Passenger 1906