Hal and his son scrambled down the embankment behind the home place to the boathouse that jutted out over the water on its old pilings.

The waves crashed through a line of old wooden pilings that stretched into the sea like a line of rotten teeth.

We moved out and cored in three-foot grids, bringing up samples of wood, which could have been a ship or pieces from old pilings of Bean's Wharf.

It was spanned with several bridges and completely fouled with old, half-rotten pilings.

The old stadium was not aging gracefully; chunks of concrete were falling off in sections and the old wooden pilings now petrified.

At our first stop, near Bush terminal in Brooklyn, we had a row of old pilings all to ourselves.

There is mention in The Hobbit of "old pilings of a greater town" that could be seen at low tide.

Waves smashed hungrily across the breakwater, thudding into the docks with malicious force; the old tarred pilings shook with the impact.

All that remains are a collection of old wooden pilings, serving principally as an obstacle to pleasure boaters.

Sylvan Beach is noted on navigational charts probably because of the old pilings which extend 100 yards out into Colvos Passage.