"pierhead" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "pier + head",
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  "etymology_text": "From pier + head.",
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    {
      "form": "pierheads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "pierhead (plural pierheads)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "pierhead line"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21:",
          "text": "It came floating like a tethered cloud past the little white toy-like lighthouse at the pierhead.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Jim Hewitson, Clinging to the Edge: Journals from an Orkney Island, page 41:",
          "text": "Here on Papay folk will speak slowly and sympathetically in a one-to-one conversation with a 'soothmoother', but if you're on the fringes of a pierhead debate about the price of cattle or the weather, then you'll soon be submerged beneath a fast-flowing terminological tidal wave.",
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        "The end of a pier farthest from shore."
      ],
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        [
          "shore",
          "shore"
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  "word": "pierhead"
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      "word": "pierhead line"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From pier + head.",
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          "ref": "1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21:",
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        },
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          "ref": "1996, Jim Hewitson, Clinging to the Edge: Journals from an Orkney Island, page 41:",
          "text": "Here on Papay folk will speak slowly and sympathetically in a one-to-one conversation with a 'soothmoother', but if you're on the fringes of a pierhead debate about the price of cattle or the weather, then you'll soon be submerged beneath a fast-flowing terminological tidal wave.",
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        "The end of a pier farthest from shore."
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