"pierhead" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From pier + head.",
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      "form": "pierheads",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "pierhead line"
        }
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        {
          "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.",
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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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          "shore",
          "shore"
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  "word": "pierhead"
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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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        "The end of a pier farthest from shore."
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