"pier" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Throughout this period there was a gradual increase in the number of finger piers and wharves along its long sheltered waterfront.
- The other form of working pier, often called the finger pier, was built at ports with smaller tidal ranges.
- They stopped when they had a good view of the small bay and the finger pier that extended out into deeper water.
- Long, thin "finger piers" thrust out into the water at the end of every cross street.
- A two-mile (3 km) trestle connects to three finger piers.
- There are four new finger piers reaching out into the East River.
- Throughout the 1950s, over 130 warehouses and 25 finger piers were demolished along Brooklyn's waterfront.
- The study's cost projections showed this could save historic open finger piers, otherwise slated for demolition, as parkland.
- Tied up to a series of finger piers were several Jet Skis and powerboats.
- Through a 99-year lease with the city, the corporation controls 11 finger piers, including the one for the Dockside.
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