PIER
\pˈi͡ə], \pˈiə], \p_ˈiə]\
Definitions of PIER
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
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A projecting wharf or landing place.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
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A projecting wharf or landing place.
By Noah Webster.
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A mass of masonry supporting an arch, bridge, etc.; any other such support, as of iron or timbers, of a bridge or other building; a projecting part of a wall, such as a buttress; a mole, wharf, or dock for vessels; a landing place.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A mass of solid stone work for supporting an arch, the timbers of a bridge, or other building; a projecting wharf or landing-place; a jetty or mole projecting into the sea.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The mass of stone or wood work carried out into the sea, serving as an embankment for the protection of vessels, or as a landing-place; a wharf or landing projecting into a river; the solid stone-work that supports an arch of a bridge or other building; the solid parts between doors or windows, &c.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French, Latin, Greek] A mass of solid stone work for supporting an arch or the timbers of a bridge, &c.;—a part of the wall of a house between the windows or doors;—a mass of stone-work projecting into the sea, for breaking the force of the waves;—a projecting wharf or landing place.
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